Payer group

Payer group
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
part of	Hoelfjella
Coordinates	72 ° 2 ′  S , 14 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 72 ° 2 ′  S , 14 ° 35 ′  E

The Payer Group are a group of scattered mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They are distributed over a length of 39 km in north-south orientation at a distance of 16 km east of the Weyprecht Mountains and form the eastern half of the Hoelfjella .

The mountains were discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after the Austrian polar explorer Julius von Payer (1842–1915), who led the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition (1872–1874) together with Carl Weyprecht .

See also

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

Web links

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