Sivorgfjella is the central and largest mountain in the Heimefront 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, ...

. It is separated from the other parts of Heimefrontfjella by Kiberdalen to the south and KK-Dalen to the north.Sivorgfjella

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''Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica'' (Norge). Katalognr. 13347 The mountain

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and

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s cover an area of and the highest point is Paalnibba (2711

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).Tore Gjelsvik
"Place-names of Heimefrontfjella and Lingetoppane, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica"
''Rapportserie'', nr. 54,

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, Oslo 1989 Sweden operate the only

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in Sivorgfjella. The research station

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is staffed during the summer, and was established in the 1987/88 season at Scharffenbergbotnen. The mountain is named after Sivorg, the

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's civil organisation during

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