Shcherbakov Mountains
| Shcherbakov Mountains | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Orvinfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ S , 8 ° 55 ′ E | |
The Shcherbakov Mountains ( Russian Хребет Щербакова Chrebet Shcherbakowa ) is a 32 km long mountain range with north-south orientation in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . The mountains extend immediately east of the Dallmannberge , where they form the eastern foothills of the Orvinfjella .
The first aerial photographs and a rough position determination were made during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers carried out a mapping based on aerial photographs and measurements made by the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). A new mapping was carried out during a Soviet Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1960 to 1961. It is named after the Soviet geologist Dmitri Ivanovich Shcherbakov (1893–1966).
Web links
- Shcherbakov Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shcherbakov Range on geographic.org (English)