Fimbulheimen is a mountain range in
Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addi ...
,
Antarctica
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. It stretches from
Jutulstraumen by 1° west of Carsten Borchgrevink Ice at 18° east, about 200 km from the ice edge. Fimbulheimen is thus between Maudheim Plateau and
Sør-Rondane.
Dronning Maud's highest mountain,
Jøkulkyrkja (elevation 3148 m), is located in
Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in Fimbulheimen. The name comes from
Fimbulvetr
In Norse mythology, (commonly rendered in English as Fimbulwinter), is the immediate prelude to the events of Ragnarök. It means 'great winter'.
Summary
is the harsh winter that precedes the end of the world and puts an end to all life on E ...
, the harsh winter immediately preceding
Ragnarok in
Norse mythology.
A number of smaller ranges and mountain areas constitutes Fimbulheimen, from west to east:
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Gburek Peaks
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Sverdrup Mountains
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Gjelsvik Mountains
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Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains
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Orvin Mountains
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Filchner Mountains
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Drygalski Mountains
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Kurze Mountains
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Gagarin Mountains
The Gagarin Mountains (russian: Khrebet Yuriya Gagarina; no, Kurzefjella) are a linear group of mountains, trending in a north–south direction for between the Kurze Mountains and the Conrad Mountains of the Orvin Mountains in Queen Maud Land, ...
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Conrad Mountains
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Mount Dallmann
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Wohlthat Mountains
Wohlthat Mountains (german: Wohlthatmassiv) is a large group of associated mountain features consisting of the Humboldt Mountains, Petermann Ranges, and the Gruber Mountains, located immediately east of the Orvin Mountains in Fimbulheimen in t ...
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Humboldt Mountains
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Petermann Ranges
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Gruber Mountains
The Gruber Mountains (German: Otto-von-Gruber-Gebirge) are a small group of mountains consisting of a main massif and several rocky outliers, forming the northeast portion of the Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were disc ...
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Hoel Mountains
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Weyprecht Mountains
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Payer Mountains
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Lomonosov Mountains
The Norwegian research station
Troll
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is located by
Jutulsessen Mountain west in Fimbulheimen, while the ornithological field station
Tor
Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:
Places
* Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain
* Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city
* Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano
* Tor Bay, Devon, England
* Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
Sc ...
is about 100 km further east at
Svarthamaren Mountain
Svarthamaren Mountain is a prominent ice-free mountain or large nunatak on the east side of the mouth of Vestreskorve Glacier in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys and aerial photographs by ...
in
Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains.
Large parts of the area were mapped by the
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1956-60. The
Norwegian Polar Institute has published twelve map sheets of Fimbulheimen in scale 1:250 000.
Mapping of Dronning Maud Land
, Norwegian Polar Institute
References
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Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land
Princess Astrid Coast