Gruber Mountains

Snow petrels breed in the mountains
Gruber Mountains is located in Antarctica
Gruber Mountains
Gruber Mountains
Location of Gruber Mountains in Queen Maud Land
Antarctica

The Gruber Mountains (German: Otto-von-Gruber-Gebirge) are a small group of mountains consisting of a main massif and several rocky outliers, forming the northeast portion of the Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were discovered and plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (GerAE), 1938–39, under Alfred Ritscher. The mountains were remapped by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60, who named them for Otto von Gruber, the German cartographer who compiled maps of this area from air photos taken by the GerAE. This feature is not to be confused with "Gruber-Berge," an unidentified toponym applied by the GerAE in northern the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains.[1]

  1. ^ "Gruber Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2018-08-15.