Lomonosov Mountains
| Lomonosov Mountains | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 31 ′ S , 15 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Lomonossow Mountains ( Russian Горі Ломоно́сов , Norwegian Lomonosovfjellet ) is a largely isolated mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It extends 30 km east of the Wohlthat massif over a length of 28 km in a northeast-southwest orientation.
This area was first photographed and roughly mapped from the air as part of the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). A detailed mapping was carried out using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). A renewed mapping and naming was carried out by participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1960 to 1961. It is named after the Russian natural scientist Michail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow (1711–1765).
Web links
- Lomonosov Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lomonosov Mountains on geographic.org (English)