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Storkvarvet Mountain

mountain in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ7620076 ↗
Source-derived summary

Storkvarvet Mountain is a mountain in Antarctica that is round in plan and has several radial spurs, standing N of Habermehl Peak at the NE end of the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains, Queen Maud Land.

Discovery and naming

Storkvarvet Mountain was photographed from the air by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher. Plotted from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named Storkvarvet (the big round of logs).

See also

List of mountains of Queen Maud Land

References

"Storkvarvet Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 31 May 2010.

External links

United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

This article incorporates public domain material from "Storkvarvet Mountain". Geographic Names Information System.

Editorial summary

“Storkvarvet Mountain” enters the record as mountain in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Storkvarvet, Mountain and mountain can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1939, 1956, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Storkvarvet, Mountain and mountain.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Storkvarvet Mountain” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Storkvarvet, Mountain and mountain provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7620076. Authority coordinates are -71.750, 6.900. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1939, 1956 and 2010.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “Storkvarvet Mountain” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.