The Gburek Peaks () are a group of rocky elevations including

Straumsvola Mountain Straumsvola Mountain () is a prominent mountain 6 nautical miles (11 km) north of Jutulrora Mountain in the northwest part of the Sverdrup Mountains, overlooking the east side of Jutulstraumen Glacier in Queen Maud Land. Plotted from air photo ...

and Jutulrora Mountain, forming the western end of the

Sverdrup Mountains The Sverdrup Mountains ( no, Sverdrupfjella) 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 Mount ...

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 addit ...

, Antarctica. They were discovered by the

Third German Antarctic Expedition New Swabia ( Norwegian and german: Neuschwabenland) was a disputed Antarctic claim by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land and is now a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20°E ...

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

Leo Gburek Leo Gburek (born 18 April 1910 in Bismarckhütte; died 17 January 1941 in Shetland) was a German geophysicist and a member of the Third German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39. Life Leo Gburek attended the Volksschule and Oberrealschule in Beut ...

, geophysicist on the expedition. The name Gburek is here restricted to the westernmost peaks of those so named on maps of the German Expedition, these being clearly recognizable on detailed maps by the

Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition The Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (also known as NBSX or NBSAE) (1949–1952) was the first Antarctica expedition involving an international team of scientists. The team members came from Norway, Sweden and the British Commonwe ...

, 1949–52, and subsequent Norwegian expeditions.

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