Well-being, massive
| Well-being, massive | ||
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| Highest peak | Zwieselberg ( 2970 m ) | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Fimbulheimen | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 35 ′ S , 12 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Wohlthatmassiv is a large mountain range east of the Orvinfjella in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It consists of individual mountains and mountain ranges such as the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains , the Petermann Range and the Otto von Gruber Mountains . The highest point is the Zwieselberg at 2970 m .
The Wohlthat massif was discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher , documented with the help of aerial photographs and named after Helmuth Wohlthat (1893–1982), who was responsible for organizing the expedition as a ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Economics .
See also
Web links
- Wohlthatmassiv in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Heinz Bennat: Some remarks about the naming of regions in antarctica and the implementation of regional names in a GIS (PDF file; 532 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wohlthat Mountains on Peakbagger.com (English)
- ↑ Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Directory of German-speaking geographical names of the Antarctic ( Memento of July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )