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When Baffin gets too touristy, this might just be a southern alternative

Holtanna, 2650 m. top, 800 m. overhung.
Ulvetanna, 296 m. top, 960 m. vertical.
Rakekniven, about 800 m. vertical

Some sponsorship would be nice of course.

Ronald

Most of the good cliffs belongs to Norway :-)

 
Nice pics. How much did your plane tickets cost? Did you fly into blue 1? How far did you have too pull? What country did you fly out of and where did you arrive on the continent? What did it take to get the permit? etc.

Lee

Hi Lee,

The company who got me there is called google. Never been to antartica myself. What I see from pictures, and what I read, there is no regular transport to Queen Maud Land. AFAIK all flight leave from South Africa. I have seen a C-130 and an Il-76 on the ice. Cost for sure must be (very) high.
Permits: clueless, even for climbing these cliffs. Norway is claiming Queen Maud Land, but there is the antartic treaty too.

And, in response to 434: the mountains were discovered by the Germans during the 1930's. They even laid claim to the land, throwing swastika images from the plane. But, losing WW2 did not help in funding their claim.

Ronald

 

1832 John Biscoe's expedition claims to sight Graham Land, although one source states it was Anvers Island.
1893 Carl Anton Larsen discovers and names Graham Land's Foyn Coast; also King Oscar Land, Mount Jason and Robertson Island.
1895-01-24 Carsten Borchgrevink makes what is claimed to be the first landing on Antarctica. Three years later he leads the first party to winter on the continent.
1911-12-14 Five Norwegians, led by Roald Amundsen, are the first to reach the South Pole.
1930 Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen flies over the area previously named Dronning Maud Land (Queen Maud Land) by Roald Amundsen.
1938-01-14 Dronning Maud Land, identified as the area lying from 45° to 20°E, is formally claimed by Norway.
1939-01-19
–1945-05-23 The area 20°E to 10°W is claimed by Nazi Germany as "German New Swabia" (Deutsch Neuschwabenland).
1941-01-13 German commandos board and capture two Norwegian factory ships in the sea north of Queen Maud Land. By the end of the next day, the Germans had taken possession of three factory ships and eleven catchers. The German Navy subsequently uses a harbor on Kerguelen Island as a base from which to attack Allied shipping.
1948 The Norwegian Polar Institute, as part of the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, is assigned the administration of Dronning Maud Land.
1957 In Norway, Dronning Maud Land becomes subject to Norwegian sovereignty as a dependency.
1961-06-23 Antarctic Treaty officially entered into force.
2005 Queen Sonja of Norway officially opened the research station Troll as an allyear station.
2008 Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visits Dronning Maud Land and personally names three mountains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Maud_Land

434,

You got me on that one.

But not everything in wikipedia is the real truth. It is just what the majority of people think, or, for that matter, what the majority of people think who have internet and bother to influence wikipedia.

Ronald

Dont worry, it is basic history for us! Quite important for a small country like us.