Wilckenskette
| Wilckenskette | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 12 ′ S , 36 ° 56 ′ W | |
The Wilckenskette ( English Wilckens Peaks ) is a semicircular mountain ridge with several mountain peaks that reach a height of up to 1375 m . They rise up in the center of South Georgia between the northern flank of the Keilhau Glacier and that of the Neumayer Glacier .
The German explorer Ludwig Kohl-Larsen roughly mapped it between 1928 and 1929. He named it after the German geologist and paleontologist Otto Wilckens (1876–1943).
Web links
- Wilckens Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilckens Peaks on geographic.org (English)