Orvin Mountains

Orvin Mountains (Orvinfjella)
Range
View looking to the west over Glopeken glacier. Glopeken glacier is located in the northern part of the Conrad Mountains, a subrange of the Orvin Mountains.
Continent	Antarctica
Region	Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica
Part of	East Antarctica Ranges
Highest point	Sandeggtind Peak
- elevation	10,023 ft (3,055 m)
- coordinates	72°00′00″S 09°00′00″E / 72°S 9°E / -72; 9
Map depicting the territorial extent of Queen Maud Land

The Orvin Mountains (Norwegian: Orvinfjella) constitute a major group of mountain ranges, extending for about 65 miles between the Wohlthat Mountains and the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in Queen Maud Land. With its summit at 3,055 metres (10,023 ft), the massive Sandeggtind Peak forms the highest point in the Conrad Mountains, a subrange of the Orvin Mountains.

Discovery and naming

Orvin Mountains

Map depicting the location of the Orvin Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

First photographed from the air and roughly plotted by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938-1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-60) and named for Anders K. Orvin, director of the Norwegian Polar Institute from 1958 to 1959.^[1]

Constituent ranges

Constituent ranges of Orvin Mountains, listed from east to west:

• Shcherbakov Range
• Mount Dallmann
• Conrad Mountains
• Gagarin Mountains
• Kurze Mountains
• Drygalski Mountains
• Filchner Mountains

See also

• List of Antarctic expeditions
• East Antarctica Ranges
• East Antarctic two-thousanders

References

1. ^ "Orvin Mountains". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:11171. Retrieved 31 May 2010. 

External links

• United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Orvin Mountains" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).