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 , Hamartind Peak 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), and again by a later Norwegian expedition. Named for Harald Sverdrup, Chairman of the Norwegian Committee for the NBSAE.

Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition

Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE), 1949–1952

Norwegian Expedition

Luncke Expedition, 1958–1959

List of important geographical features of the Sverdrup Mountains

See also

• List of mountains of Queen Maud Land
• Nils Plain

References

External links

• United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)