Pieckback
| Pieckback | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Petermann chains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 45 ′ S , 12 ° 6 ′ E | |
The Pieckback ( Russian Хребет Вильгельма Пика Chrebet Wilgelma Pika ) is a short mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises on the east side of the Humboldtgraben in the Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif .
It was discovered from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Further aerial photographs and measurements were made during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). The name after Wilhelm Pieck (1876–1960), then President of the GDR , was made by participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition from 1960 to 1961.
Web links
- Pieck Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pieck Range on geographic.org (English)