Riiser-Larsen, Mount
Mount Riiser-Larsen is a prominent mountain, 870 m, standing at the northwest end of the Tula Mountains on the east side of Amundsen Bay. It was named by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson in January 1930 for Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, the leader of a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia which also explored the area in that season.- Mountain rising to 870 metres (2,854 feet)
- …is also known as “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-66.78333° or 66° 47′ south
Longitude
50.66667° or 50° 40′ east
Open location code
3H5G6M88+MM
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Riiser-Larsen, Mount” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Riiser-Larsen”
- Chinese: “里塞-拉森山”
- Dutch: “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- German: “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- Hebrew: “הר ריסר-לארסן”
- Ladin: “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- Low German: “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- Swedish: “Mount Riiser-Larsen”
- Swedish: “Riiser-Larsen”
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Highlights include Adams Fjord and Mount Hardy.
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