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Gjelsvik Mountains
The Gjelsvik Mountains are a group of mountains about long, between the Sverdrup Mountains and the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Risemedet Mountain forms the highest point in these mountains, also marking their eastern end.
Discovery and naming.
The Gjelsvik Mountains were first photographed from the air and roughly plotted by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39). They were mapped in detail by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian–
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