Weyprecht Mountains
| Weyprecht Mountains | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Hoelfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 0 ′ S , 13 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Weyprecht Mountains are a small group of mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They rise 16 km west of the Payer group and form the western half of 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 German polar explorer Carl Weyprecht (1838–1881), who led the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition (1872–1874) together with Julius von Payer .
See also
Web links
- Weyprecht Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weyprecht Mountains on geographic.org (English)