Reicheltnevet
| Reicheltnevet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sivorgfjella in Heimefrontfjella | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 42 ′ 48 " S , 11 ° 47 ′ 30" W | |
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The Reicheltnevet ( Norwegian ) is a partially snow-covered ledge in the Heimefrontfjella of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises up on the north side of Bieringmulen in Skjønsbergskarvet of Sivorgfjella .
Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1985. It is named after the Norwegian Reichelt family, whose members participated in the resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II . Borti Reichelt (1916–1944) was executed by the occupiers in 1944. His brother Erik Reichelt (1917–1943) had enabled the persecuted to flee to Great Britain before he was captured and murdered in 1943. Her sister Mathilde "Bittema" Reichelt (* 1919, later married Knutsen) had worked as a nurse before she was arrested in 1942 and taken to a concentration camp , which she survived. Their father, Captain Gerhard Andersen Reichelt (1885–1941), drowned in the Atlantic in 1941 after his ship was torpedoed by a German submarine .
Web links
- Reicheltnevet in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Reicheltnevet in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)