Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Petermannketten (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Petermannketten (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Range (2c)
This name originates from Germany. It is part of the Germany Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of three parallel N-S oriented mountain ranges (Norwegian name Petermannkjeda) including the ranges Westliche Petermannkette, Mittlere Petermannkette, Östliche Petermannkette as well as the NNE-SSW oriented range søre Petermannkjeda, Wohlthatmassiv, Fimbulheimen, Neuschwabenland, Dronning Maud Land; during the 1938/39 expedition the naming of 'Petermannketten' did cover the area of all four ranges, however, without explicitly naming the S range; this happened later by Norwegian and American cartographers. Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 ('Neuschwabenland-Expedition') under Alfred Ritscher.
August Heinrich Petermann (1822-1878), German geographer, cartographer and publisher of the geographic journal 'Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen'.
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