Payer Mountains

{{Short description|Antarctic mountain range}}

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The Payer Mountains ({{langx|de|Payergruppe}}) is a group of scattered mountains extending north-south for about {{convert|37|km|abbr=on}}, standing {{convert|15|km|abbr=on|0}} 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 (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher, and named for Julius Payer, Austrian polar explorer, who in company with Karl Weyprecht discovered Franz Josef Land in 1873.[http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ USGS GNIS: Payer Mountains]