Fimbulheimen is a mountain range in
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, ...
,
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, the harsh winter immediately preceding
Ragnarok in
Norse mythology
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.
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
The Gjelsvik Mountains are a group of mountains about long, between the Sverdrup Mountains and the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Risemedet Mountain forms the highest point in these ...
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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 (; ) 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, East Antarctica.
Discovery and naming
The ...
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Conrad Mountains
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Mount Dallmann
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Wohlthat Mountains
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Humboldt Mountains
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Petermann Ranges
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Gruber Mountains
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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 is about 100 km further east at
Svarthamaren Mountain in
Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains.
Large parts of the area were mapped by the
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1956-60. The
Norwegian Polar Institute
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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