Filchner Mountains
| Filchner Mountains | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Orvinfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 7 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Filchnerberge are a group of mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica . They rise about 11 km southwest of the Drygalski Mountains in the Orvinfjella .
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 Ritscher's predecessor Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957), head of the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912).
See also
Web links
- Filchner Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Filchner Mountains on geographic.org (English)