Nordwestliche Insel Mountains () is a small, detached group of mountains,
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
-like in appearance, and forming the northern extremity of the
Humboldt Mountains, in the
Wohlthat Mountains
Wohlthat Mountains (german: Wohlthatmassiv) is a large group of associated mountain features consisting of the Humboldt Mountains, Petermann Ranges, and the Gruber Mountains, located immediately east of the Orvin Mountains in Fimbulheimen in the ...
of
Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addit ...
. Discovered by the
German Antarctic Expedition under Ritscher, 1938–39, and named
Nordwestliche Insel (northwest island). The feature lies at the northwest extremity of the Wohlthat Mountains.
Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land
Humboldt Mountains (Antarctica)
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