Hoel Mountains is a group of mountain

Mountain

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s including the Weyprecht Mountains

Weyprecht Mountains

Weyprecht Mountains is a small group of mountains about 10 miles west of the Payer Mountains, forming the western half of the Hoel Mountains in Queen Maud Land. They were discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition , led by Capt...

 and Payer Mountains

Payer Mountains

The Payer Mountains is a group of scattered mountains extending north-south for about , standing east of the Weyprecht Mountains and forming the eastern half of the Hoel Mountains in central Queen Maud Land. They were discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition , led by Capt...

 in 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...

. They were first photographed from the air and plotted by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39), mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the 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) and named for Adolf Hoel

Adolf Hoel

Adolf Hoel was a Norwegian geologist and polar researcher. He was the leading Norwegian researcher at Svalbard in the early 20th century, and in 1928 founded Norges Svalbard- og Ishavsundersøkelser, which became the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1948. The mineral hoelite is named in his honour...

, Norwegian geologist and Arctic explorer, leader and member of many expeditions to Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

 and Spitsbergen

Spitsbergen

Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...

since 1907.