Krugerberg

Krugerberg
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height	2655  m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Sverdrupfjella
Coordinates	72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 1 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 1 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Krügerberg is a 2655  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 13 km southwest of the mountain Kvithø in the Sverdrupfjella .

It was discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after the meteorologist Walter Krüger (1905–1948), a participant in this research trip. The mountain was surveyed during the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952). In Norway the mountain is known as Kvitskarvet .

See also

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

Web links

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