Troll CastleExplorers may have sighted Queen Maud Land’s coast in 1820, but its grand mountains, such as the Troll Castle [pictured] remained unknown until 1939, when Germans made aerial photos. Today the region’s virgin peaks and otherworldly terrain exert a magnetic pull on top climbers [such as the six-person expedition, covered in this gallery, who summitted never before scaled peaks].—From "On the Edge of Antarctica: Queen Maud Land," February 1998, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie

Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

See photos of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, in this photo gallery from National Geographic.

Published November 5, 2009