Mount Riiser-Larsen () is a prominent
mountain
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, 870 m, standing at the northwest end of the
Tula Mountains
The Tula Mountains are a group of extensive mountains lying immediately eastward of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were discovered on January 14, 1930, by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) ...
on the east side of
Amundsen Bay
Amundsen Bay, also known as Ice Bay, is a long embayment wide, close west of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land, Antarctica. The bay was seen as a large pack-filled recession in the coastline by Sir Douglas Mawson on 14 January 1930. Seen by Capta ...
. It was named by the
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under
Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader durin ...
in January 1930 for Captain
Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen (7 June 1890 – 3 June 1965) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer, military officer, polar explorer and businessman. Among his achievements, he is generally regarded a founder of the Royal Norwegian Air Force.
Background
Ri ...
, 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
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USGS
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website
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AADC website
Mount Riiser-Larsenon
SCAR
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References
Mountains of Enderby Land
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