Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains
Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | ||
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The northwest end of the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains with the Hoggestabben (left) and the Hochlinfjellet (right) |
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Highest peak | Jøkulkyrkja ( 3148 m ) | |
location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
part of | Fimbulheimen | |
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Coordinates | 72 ° 0 ′ S , 5 ° 20 ′ E | |
The granite wall of Stålstuten in the western Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains, view to the southwest |
The Mühlig-Hofmann-Gebirge is a mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen-Maud-Land . It extends in an east-west orientation over a length of 120 km between the Gjelsvikfjella and the Orvinfjella . Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher discovered it, mapped it with the help of aerial photographs and named it after Albert Mühlig-Hofmann (1886–1980), member of the supervisory board of the German Zeppelin shipping company and department head in the Reich Ministry of Aviation . The Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains were topographically re-recorded during the third Norwegian Antarctic expeditions (1956–1960). The Jøkulkyrkja Mountain is 3148 m , the highest peak of the mountain.
The “Special Antarctic Protected Area No. 142 - Svarthamaren” is located in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains. It has a size of about 6.4 km² and consists of the ice-free areas of Mount Svarthamaren . The Norwegian summer station Tor is excluded from the protected area and is located on its edge. The world's largest breeding colony of Antarctic petrels with 250,000 breeding pairs is within the range.
Web links
- MapPlanet Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains
- Geology of the Gjelsvikfjella and the western Mühlig Hofmann Mountains in the central Dronning Maud Land
- Map of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 (PDF file; 5.70 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ordinance on specially protected areas, specially managed areas, historical sites and monuments in the Antarctic ( BGBl. 2005 II p. 386 )
- ↑ Swedish Secretariat for Polar Research Stockholm 2008, Dronning Maud Land (English, pdf)