Sør Rondane Mountains

obtained from SCAR composite gazetteer

Description

SCAR Gazetteer Ref. No 13676

This name originates from United States of America, but is also called , Sør-Rondane (Norway) and Sør-Rondane (Russia).
It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Group of mountains about 100 mi long with main peaks rising to 3, 400 m, between the Queen Fabiola Mountains and Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Discovered and photographed from the air by members of the Lars Christensen Expedition on Feb. 6, 1937, and named after Rondane, a mountain massif in southern Norway. The mountains were mapped in greater detail in 1957 by Norwegian cartographers working with air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47.

Pictures by Stephen Roberts (BAS)

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