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19.06.2008 © Erik Aaseth

A view yet unseen...

Torgeir, Arne and Morten on the Hakluyt ridge just a few steps north of Hakluyttoppen S/2173m.
The latter, upon which I stand, had never been visited by mankind before!
Here we measured by means of a GPS some errors in the official heights on these peaks.
Our results were consistant over a series of measurements, and decreased the heights with approx. 18 meters.
Hence Hakluyttoppen N/2203 in the background is 2185m high, while Hakluyttoppen S/2173 is 2155m accordingly.
Of course there are margins for errors here, but we believe these heights to be closer to the truth than those annotated on the current maps.

Olympus E-3, ZD 7-14@9mm, F9, 1/1600s IS, ISO 100, EV -0.3, handheld full exif

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