Payer group
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location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
part of | Hoelfjella | |
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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
Web links
- Payer Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Payer Mountains on geographic.org (English)