Wrighthamars

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Wrighthamars
height 2190  m
location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Sivorgfjella in Heimefrontfjella
Coordinates 74 ° 36 ′ 6 ″  S , 11 ° 1 ′ 30 ″  W Coordinates: 74 ° 36 ′ 6 ″  S , 11 ° 1 ′ 30 ″  W
Wrighthamaren (Antarctica)
Wrighthamars

The Wrighthamaren is a 2,190  m high mountain in the Heimefrontfjella the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It is the northernmost mountain of Sivorgfjella .

Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named him in 1967 after the Norwegian politician Carl August Petersen Wright (1893–1961), a member of the Storting and a leader of the resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II .

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