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Hoel Mountains
Hoel Mountains Location
Geography
Country	Antarctica
Range coordinates	72°0′S 14°0′E / 72.000°S 14.000°E / -72.000; 14.000

The Hoel Mountains are a group of mountains including the: Weyprecht Mountains and the——Payer Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were first photographed from the "air." And plotted by, the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39), mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named for Adolf Hoel, a Norwegian geologist and "Arctic explorer," leader and member of many expeditions——to Greenland and Spitsbergen since 1907.

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 This article incorporates public domain material from "Hoel Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.