Bulken Hill

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Bulken Hill ( 71°51′S26°58′E / 71.850°S 26.967°E / -71.850; 26.967 Coordinates: 71°51′S26°58′E / 71.850°S 26.967°E / -71.850; 26.967 ) is a hill, 2,220 metres (7,280 ft) high, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Balchen Mountain in the Sør Rondane Mountains. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named Bulken (the lump). [1]

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Balchen Mountain is a mountain, 2,820 metres (9,250 ft) high, standing at the east side of Byrdbreen in the Sør Rondane Mountains. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named for Bernt Balchen, famous Norwegian polar aviator and chief pilot of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30.

Sør Rondane Mountains

The Sør Rondane Mountains are a group of mountains about 100 miles long with main peaks rising to 3400 m, between the Queen Fabiola Mountains and Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land. They were discovered and photographed from the air by members of the Lars Christensen Expedition on February 6, 1937, and named after Rondane, a mountain massif in southern Norway. The mountains were mapped in greater detail in 1957 by Norwegian cartographers working with air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47.

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