The Barkley Mountains () are a small group of mountains including
Kvitkjolen Ridge and
Isingen Mountain, rising between
Kvitsvodene Valley and
Rogstad Glacier in the
Sverdrup Mountains
The Sverdrup Mountains () are a group of mountains about long, standing just west of the Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. With its summit at , Hamartind Peak forms the highest point in the Sverdrup Mountains.
Discovery an ...
of
Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land () is a roughly region of Antarctica Territorial claims in Antarctica, claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20th meridian west, 20° west, specifically the Caird Coast, ...
. They were discovered by the
Third German Antarctic Expedition
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (dis ...
under
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 () ...
, 1938–39, and named for
Erich Barkley, biologist on the expedition. They were surveyed by the
Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–52.
References
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Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land
Princess Martha Coast
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