Vorposten Peak () is an isolated peak (1,670 m) about northeast of the
Payer Mountains
The Payer Mountains (german: Payergruppe) is a group of scattered mountains extending north-south for about , standing east of the Weyprecht Mountains and forming the eastern half of the Hoel Mountains in central Queen Maud Land.
They were di ...
in central
Queen Maud Land. This feature was 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 ...
(1938–1939), led by Capt.
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 ...
, and named Vorposten (the outpost) because of its location at the eastern extremity of the area explored by the German expedition.
Mountains of Queen Maud Land
Princess Astrid Coast
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