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Balchen Mountain
Balchen
Mountain
is a
mountain
, 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.