Mount Riiser-Larsen is a prominent mountain

Mountain

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, 870 m, standing at the northwest end of the Tula Mountains

Tula Mountains

Tula Mountains is a group of extensive mountains lying immediately eastward of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were discovered on January 14, 1930 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson and named "Tula Range" by him after John Biscoe's brig,...

 on the east side of Amundsen Bay

Amundsen Bay

Amundsen Bay, also known as Ice Bay, is a long embayment wide, close west of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land, Antarctica. The bay was seen as a large pack-filled recession in the coastline by Sir Douglas Mawson on January 14, 1930...

. It was named by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson in January 1930 for Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen was a Norwegian aviation pioneer, polar explorer and businessman. Among his achievements, he is generally regarded as the founder of the Royal Norwegian Air Force....

, the leader of a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia which also explored the area in that season.