Penck trough
| Penck trough | ||
|---|---|---|
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Maudheimvidda | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 2 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W | |
|
||
The Penck Mulde ( Norwegian Pencksøkket , English Penck Trough ) is a wide, icy and around 100 km basin in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It extends in a south-west-north-east extent between the Borg massif and the north-east section of the Kirwanveggen .
Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) led by Alfred Ritscher discovered him. Ritscher named the valley after the German geographer Albrecht Penck (1858–1945). A detailed mapping of the area was carried out in the course of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
See also
Web links
- Penck Trough in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Penck Trough on geographic.org (English)