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Kurze Mountains
The Kurze Mountains () are a range of mainly bare rock peaks, ridges and mountains about long and wide in the Orvin Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The feature stands between the Drygalski Mountains on the west and the Gagarin Mountains and Conrad Mountains on the east.
The Kurze Mountains were discovered and plotted from aerial photographs taken by the Third German Antarctic Expedition under Alfred Ritscher, 1938–39, who named them for the director of the Naval Division of the former Marineleitung (German Admiralty). They
constitutes Fimbulheimen, from west to east:
- Gburek Peaks
- Sverdrup Mountains
- Gjelsvik Mountains
- Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains
- Orvin Mountains
- Filchner Mountains
- Drygalski Mountains
- Kurze Mountains
- Gagarin Mountains
- Conrad Mountains
- Mount Dallmann
- Wohlthat Mountains
- Humboldt Mountains
- Petermann Ranges
- Gruber Mountains
- Hoel Mountains
- Weyprecht Mountains
- Payer Mountains
- Lomonosov Mountains
The Norwegian research station Troll is located by Jutulsessen Mountain west in Fimbulheimen