Jøkulkyrkja Mountain ("the Glacier Church"), also known as Massiv Yakova Gakkelya, is a broad, ice-topped mountain with several radial rock spurs, standing east of Lunde Glacier in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of

Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addi ...

, East Antarctica. At elevation, it is the highest elevation in

, and also the highest elevation within the claims of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The mountain is located on the

Princess Astrid Coast Princess Astrid Coast is a portion of the coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, lying between 5° and 20° E. The entire coast is bordered by ice shelves. The region was discovered by Capt. H. Halvorsen of the Sevilla (ship) in March 1931 and in ...

of the Norwegian Antarctic Territory. Håhellerskarvet ("shark cave mountain"), , is located to the southwest; the two peaks are separated by the 25-mile-long Lunde Glacier, which flows to the northwest.

Discovery and naming

Jøkulkyrkja Mountain was plotted from surveys and air photos by the

Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition The sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (''Den norske antarktisekspedisjonen'') was a scientific expedition to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. The expedition was based at Norway Station () which was located on the Fimbul Ice Shelf bordering the co ...

(1956–60) and named ''Jøkulkyrkja''. The first element is ''jøkul'' m 'small glacier', the last element is the finite form of ''kyrkje'' f 'church'. (Like other names in the Norwegian Arctic and Antarctic islands and areas the

Nynorsk Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-N ...

form of Norwegian is used in the name - the

Bokmål Bokmål () (, ; ) is an official written standard for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is the preferred written standard of Norwegian for 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. Unlike, for instance, the Italian language, there ...

form would have been *''Jøkelkirken'' or *''Jøkelkirka'').

Mountaineering significance

The first ascent of Jøkulkyrkja Mountain was in January 1994, by a team of 13 mountain climbers led by Ivar Tollefsen. The first woman to reach the top was Merete Asak, November 2010.

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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Jokulkyrkja Mountain Princess Astrid Coast {{PrincessAstridCoast-geo-stub

Discovery and naming

Mountaineering significance

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