Northwest Island

Northwest Island
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location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Well-being, massive
Coordinates	71 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 11 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 11 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Northwest Island is an island-like group of small and remote mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They form the northern foothills of the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthat massif .

They were discovered and named descriptively during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar researcher Alfred Ritscher .

See also

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

Web links

• Northwestern island Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Northwest Island Mountains on geographic.org (English)