Photo: The Razor From Base Camp
Photo: The Razor from base camp
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Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie
Rakekniven (The Razor), part of the Filchner Mountains, rears 2,000 feet [610 meters] above the mile-high [1.6-kilometer-high] base camp.

—From "On the Edge of Antarctica: Queen Maud Land," February 1998, National Geographic magazine
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