Queen Fabiola Mountains
| Queen Fabiola Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Fukushima ( 2470 m ) | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 30 ′ S , 35 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Queen Fabiola Mountains ( French Monts Reine Fabiola ) is a 50 km long mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It essentially consists of seven small massifs with north-south orientation, which represent a partial barrier for the flow of the inland ice. The mountains are isolated at a distance of 150 km southwest of the Lützow-Holm-Bucht .
Participants in a Belgian Antarctic expedition led by Guido Derom (1923–2005), which lasted from 1959 to 1961, discovered the mountains and photographed them on October 8, 1960 from the air. It is named after the Belgian Queen Fabiola Mora y Aragón (1928–2014). Between November and December 1960, participants in a Japanese expedition carried out geomorphological and geological investigations in this mountain range, which has since been known in Japan under the name Yamato-sanmyaku ( Japanese 大 和 山脈 西 , freely translated: Mountains of Great Peace ).
Web links
- Queen Fabiola Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Queen Fabiola Mountains on geographic.org (English)