Buddenbrock chain

Buddenbrock chain
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
part of	Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains
Coordinates	71 ° 52 ′  S , 5 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 71 ° 52 ′  S , 5 ° 24 ′  E

The Buddenbrock Range is a group of scattered mountains and nunatakkers in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They rise up in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains between the Austre Skorvebreen and the Vestre Skorvebreen .

They were discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after Friedrich von Buddenbrock (1894–1964), then head of the sea flight department at Lufthansa .

See also

• List of the geographical objects named by the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39

Web links

• Buddenbrock Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Buddenbrock Range on geographic.org (English)