Sverdrup Mountains [SEP] continent
Sverdrup Mountains
The Sverdrup Mountains () are a group of mountains about long, standing just west of the Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Mount Krüger forms the highest point in the Sverdrup Mountains.
Discovery and naming.
First photographed from the air and roughly plotted by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (3rd GAE), 1938–1939. Mapped in detail by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and aerial photographs taken by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE)
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