Bruns Mountains

Bruns Mountains
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
part of	Sverdrupfjella
Coordinates	72 ° 5 ′  S , 1 ° 10 ′  E Coordinates: 72 ° 5 ′  S , 1 ° 10 ′  E

The Bruns Mountains are a small group of Nunatakkers in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They rise 4 km west-northwest of the Brattskarvet mountain in Sverdrupfjella . The rock Tua belongs to them .

They were discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after Herbert Bruns (* 1908), electrical engineer of the expedition ship Schwabenland .

See also

• List of the geographical objects named by the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39

Web links

• Bruns Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Bruns Nunataks on geographic.org (English)