Drygalski Mountains is a group of scattered mountain

Mountain

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s and nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

s lying between the Filchner Mountains

Filchner Mountains

Filchner Mountains is a mountain range 11 km southwest of Drygalski Mountains, at the west end of the Orvin Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition , led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher, and named for Wilhelm Filchner, leader of the German expedition to the...

 and Kurze Mountains

Kurze Mountains

The Kurze Mountains are a range of mainly bare rock peaks, ridges and mountains about 20 nautical miles long and 6 nautical miles wide in the Orvin Mountains of Queen Maud Land...

 in the Orvin Mountains

Orvin Mountains

The Orvin Mountains constitute a major group of mountain ranges, extending for about 65 miles between the Wohlthat Mountains and the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in Queen Maud Land...

 of Queen Maud Land

Queen Maud Land

Queen Maud Land is a c. 2.7 million-square-kilometre region of Antarctica claimed as a dependent territory by Norway. The territory lies between 20° west and 45° east, between the British Antarctic Territory to the west and the Australian Antarctic Territory to the east. The latitudinal...

. Discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher

Alfred Ritscher

Alfred Ritscher was a German polar explorer. A captain in the German Navy, he led the third German Antarctic Expedition in 1938-39, which mapped the New Swabia area of Queen Maud Land. Ritscher Peak and Ritscher Upland there are named for him.-External links:*...

, and named for Professor Erich von Drygalski

Erich von Drygalski

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia....

, leader of the German Antarctic Expedition of 1901-03. Remapped from air photos and survey by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition

Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition

The sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition was a scientific expedition to Queen Maud Land, intended as part of Norway's participation in the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58. The crew set sail from Oslo on board two whaling ships, the Polarsirkel and Polarbjørn, on November 10, 1956. They...

, 1956-60.

The highest peak is Ulvetanna

Ulvetanna Peak

Ulvetanna Peak is a sharp peak, 2,930 m, about 2 miles north of Kinntanna Peak in the east part of Fenriskjeften Mountain in Queen Maud Land...

2930 moh.