Mount Riiser-Larsen

Mount Riiser-Larsen

Mount Riiser-Larsen (66°47′S 50°40′E / 66.783°S 50.667°E / -66.783; 50.667) is a prominent mountain, 870 m, standing at the northwest end of the Tula Mountains on the east side of Amundsen Bay. Named by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, in January 1930, for Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, leader of a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia which also explored the area in that season.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Riiser-Larsen" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).