Voltat is a mountain range to the east of the Orvin mountain range on the territory of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica [2] .
| Voltat | |
|---|---|
| him Wohlthat | |
 View from the northwest to the top of Bastei | |
| Specifications | |
| Square | 25,673 km² |
| Length | 242 km |
| Width | 236 km |
| Highest point | |
| Highest peak | Zwiesel |
| Highest point | 2970 [1] m |
| Location | |
| Continent |
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| Region | Queen Maud Land |
The name of Voltat was mapped on Antarctica during the expeditions of the Third Reich ( New Schwabia ), at the initiative of Goering , who proposed to perpetuate the name of the expedition's organizer Helmut Voltat .
Since 1960, Soviet Antarctic expeditions have been investigating the mountainous region of the Queen Maud Land. A detailed study of the Voltat massif and the Muling-Hoffman mountains revealed the expediency in assigning names to some nameless geographic features. New names were proposed by members of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition and then supplemented by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of Arctic Geology and the State Design and Research Institute of Maritime Transport. Among them is the Bystrov Rock ( ) mapped in 1961.
In January-February 2003, the Russian expedition "Antarctica - Russia 2003" conquered several nameless mountain peaks in the Voltat massif. After that, new geographical names appeared on the map of the Queen Maud Land - the peak of George Zhukov ( ), the peak of Saints Boris and Gleb ( ), “peak Vladimir” and peak Geser . A two-meter Orthodox cross was erected at the top of the peak of Saints Boris and Gleb.
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Literature
- B. V. Dubovsky. New names of geographical objects in the work area of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on the Queen Maud Land. Antarctic. Reports of the Commission in 1967, Moscow, Science, 1969, Issue 7, pp. 201-205.