🏔️ Hoel Mountains

Antarctica · Antarctica · 72.00°S, 14.00°E

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The Hoel Mountains are a group of mountains including the Weyprecht Mountains and the Payer Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were first photographed from the air and plotted by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39), mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named for Adolf Hoel, a Norwegian geologist and Arctic explorer, leader and member of many expeditions to Greenland and Spitsbergen since 1907.

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Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)72.00°S, 14.00°E · view on map

Hoel Mountains is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More mountain ranges in Antarctica

Achaean Range · Adams Mountains · Admiralty Mountains · Alamein Range · Alexandra Mountains · Allegheny Mountains (Antarctica) · Ames Range · Amphitheatre Peaks · Anare Mountains · Anderson Massif.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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