Mount Riiser-Larsen

Mount Riiser-Larsen (

66°47′S 50°40′E / 66.783°S 50.667°E / -66.783; 50.667Coordinates: 66°47′S 50°40′E / 66.783°S 50.667°E / -66.783; 50.667) is a prominent mountain, 870 m, standing at the northwest end of the Tula Mountains on the east side of Amundsen Bay. It was named by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson in January 1930 for Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, the leader of a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia which also explored the area in that season.

Further reading[]

• United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center, Sailing Directions for Antarctica: Includes Islands South of Latitude 60.̊, P 248
• Itoyuki Nishioka, Naoto Ishikawa, and Minoru Funaki, Magnetic fabric analysis of deformed rocks in the Riiser-Larsen Main Shear Zone, East Antarctica, Polar Geosci., 18, 1525, 2005
• National Science Foundation, Antarctic Journal of the United States, Volumes 14-15, P 47

External links[]

• Mount Riiser-Larsen on USGS website
• Mount Riiser-Larsen on AADC website
• Mount Riiser-Larsen on SCAR website

References[]

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Mount Riiser-Larsen". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)