Mount Riiser-Larsen
| Mount Riiser-Larsen | ||
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| height | 870 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tula Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 50 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Riiser-Larsen is a 870 m high and striking mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises at the northwestern end of the Tula Mountains on the east bank of Amundsen Bay .
He was named in January 1930 during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . It is named after the Norwegian aviation pioneer and polar explorer Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen (1890–1965), leader of the Norwegian expedition that was carried out at the same time on Norvegia in this region of Antarctica.
Web links
- Mount Riiser-Larsen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Riiser-Larsen on geographic.org (English)