COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to 1385m in central Read Mountains, Shackleton Range, was photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and surveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71; in association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, named after Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930), German astronomer, meteorologist and Arctic explorer who was a pioneer of the theory of continental drift; Professor of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Graz, Austria, 1924-30; member of Danish expeditions to Greenland in 1906-08 and in 1911-13, when he took part in a crossing of the ice cap; Leader of German expeditions to Greenland in 1929 and in 1930, losing life on the ice cap in November of that year (APC, 1974, p.6; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).

Mountain rising to 1,385 m in central Read Mountains, Shackleton Range. The feature was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967. Surveyed by BAS, 1968-71. Named by the UK-APC in association with the names of geologists grouped in this area after Alfred L. Wegener (1880-1930), German astronomer, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer; a pioneer of the theory of continental drift; Professor of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Graz, Austria, 1924-30; Leader of German expeditions to Greenland in 1929 and 1930, losing life on the ice cap in November of that year.