Keilhaufjellet is a mountain in
Sørkapp Land
Sørkapp Land is the land area south of Hornsund, at the southern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Two glaciers, Hornbreen and Hambergbreen, divide Sørkapp Land from Torell Land.
Sørkapp Land is included in the Sør-Spitsbergen National Par ...
at
Spitsbergen,
Svalbard. It has a height of 660
m.a.s.l. The mountain is named after Norwegian geologist
Baltazar Mathias Keilhau
Balthazar Mathias Keilhau (2 November 1797 – 1 January 1858) was a Norwegian geologist and mountain pioneer. He is regarded as the founder of the discipline of geology in Norway, and has also been credited for the discovery of the Jotunheim ...
. Keilhaufjellet was the southernmost triangulation point established during the
Swedish-Russian Arc-of-Meridian Expedition (from 1899).
References
Mountains of Spitsbergen
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