Wall Range
| Wall Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Wheat ( 1100 m ) | |
| location | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 49 '15 " S , 63 ° 21' 38" W | |
The Wall Range ( English for Mauergebirge ) is a 5 km long mountain range in the center of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It stretches in a northeast-southwest orientation from Thunder Glacier to the Channel Glacier and is characterized by rocky cliffs reminiscent of walls and jagged peaks of up to 1,100 m in height.
It was first mapped during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey in 1944 and named it descriptive.
Web links
- Wall Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wall Range on geographic.org (English)