COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to c. 1800m at NW end of Carey Range, Black Coast, were photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and surveyed from the ground by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1974-75; in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named after Dr Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1957), Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist; Chief Scientist of the Norwegian North Polar Expedition in the Maud, 1918-25 (Capt. R. Amundsen) and of the Arctic expedition in the submarine Nautilus, 1931 (Sir H. Wilkins); joint Leader, Norwegian-Swedish Expedition to Svalbard, 1934; Director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, Cal., 1936-48; Director, Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1948-57, and Chairman of the International Committee for the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52 (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; APC, 1980, p.5; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).

A line of peaks trending WNW-ESE and rising to 1,800 m in the NW part of Carey Range, near the edge of the interior plateau in SE Palmer Land. Mapped by USGS from aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Navy, 1966-69. In association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named by the UK-APC in 1977 after Harald U. Sverdrup (1888-1957), Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist; Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1936-48; Director, Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1948-57, and Chairman of the International Committee for the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52.