Schirmacher Hills () is a line of low coastal hills, 11 nautical miles (20 km) long, with numerous meltwater ponds (
Schirmacher Oasis
The Schirmacher Oasis (or Schirmacher Lake Plateau) is a long and up to wide ice-free plateau with more than 100 freshwater lakes. It is situated in the Schirmacher Hills on the Princess Astrid Coast in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica and is ...
), standing 40 nautical miles (70 km) north of the
Humboldt Mountains along the coast of
Queen Maud Land. Discovered by the
Third German Antarctic Expedition
New Swabia (Norwegian and german: Neuschwabenland) was a disputed Antarctic claim by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land and is now a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20°E a ...
under
Alfred Ritscher
Alfred Ritscher (23 May 1879 in Bad Lauterberg – 30 March 1963 in Hamburg) was a German polar explorer. A ''Kapitän zur See'' in the ''Kriegsmarine'', he led the third German Antarctic Expedition in 1938–39, which mapped the New Swabia (ger ...
, 1938–39, and named for
Richardheinrich Schirmacher, pilot of the Boreas, one of the expedition seaplanes.
Features
Akkuratnaya Cove is located on the north side of the Schirmacher Hills.
Zub Lake is located about 1 mile (1,600 m) east-southeast of
Tsentral'naya Hill, which is close to
Dlinnoye Lake.
References
Hills of Queen Maud Land
Princess Astrid Coast
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