Mount Ruth Gade
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Mount Ruth Gade is a pyramidal mountain
, 3,515 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg
in the Quarles Range
, Queen Maud Mountains
. Discovered in November 1911 by Captain Roald Amundsen
, and named by him for one of the daughters of the Norwegian minister to Brazil, a strong supporter of Amundsen.
Mountain
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, 3,515 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg
Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg
Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg is an ice-covered mountain between Cooper Glacier and Bowman Glacier, standing 2 nautical miles southwest of Mount Ruth Gade in the Quarles Range. Discovered in December 1911 by Roald Amundsen, and named by him for Alice Wedel-Jarlsberg , first wife of Fritz Wedel Jarlsberg...
in the Quarles Range
Quarles Range
Quarles Range is a high and rugged range of the Queen Maud Mountains, extending from the polar plateau between Cooper and Bowman Glaciers and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf. Peaks in the range were first sighted by Captain Roald Amundsen in 1911, and the range was mapped in detail by...
, Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...
. Discovered in November 1911 by Captain Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912 and he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage....
, and named by him for one of the daughters of the Norwegian minister to Brazil, a strong supporter of Amundsen.