Wegener Range
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 44 ′ S , 62 ° 16 ′ W | |
The Wegener Range are up to 1800 m high mountains on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends in a west-northwest-east-southeast direction between the Maury Glacier and the Fenton Glacier over a length of around 70 km.
Aerial photographs were taken in 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) and between 1966 and 1969 by the United States Navy . The United States Geological Survey used this to map the mountain range. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it 1979 after the German polar and geoscientist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930).
Web links
- Wegener Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wegener Range on geographic.org (English)