Wittespitzen
| Wittespitzen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Ahlmannryggen | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 32 ′ S , 2 ° 4 ′ W | |
The Wittespitzen are a series of nunataks in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They rise up 24 km west of the stone peaks with a southwest-northeast orientation in the northeast part of the Ahlmannryggen .
They were discovered by participants in the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) under the direction of Alfred Ritscher , who named them after Dietrich Witte, the engine mechanic on the research trip.
Web links
- Witte Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Witte Peaks on geographic.org (English)