Wiedemann Range
Wiedemann Range | |
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Wiedemann Bjerge | |
Highest point | |
Peak | Wiedemann Range High Point |
Elevation | 115 m (377 ft) |
Dimensions | |
Length | 30 km (19 mi) N/S |
Width | 15 km (9.3 mi) E/W |
Geography | |
Location | |
Country | Greenland |
Range coordinates | 68°39′N 28°29′W / 68.650°N 28.483°WCoordinates: 68°39′N 28°29′W / 68.650°N 28.483°W |
The Wiedemann Range (Danish: Wiedemann Bjerge) is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.
History[]
The range was visited in 1932 by a team of geologists belonging to Ejnar Mikkelsen's . It was named after German naturalist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (1770–1840).[1]
In 1962, a VP-5 Lockheed P-2 Neptune on a patrol mission crashed into the slope of the Kronborg Glacier close to this range, killing all twelve men aboard. The crash site was finally discovered in 1966 when four geologists found it, but it was not until 2004 that the US Navy recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site.[2]
Geography[]
The Wiedemann Range is an up to 1,715 m (5,627 ft) high mountain massif made up of nunataks. The southern end of the range rises close to the sea, in the Denmark Strait area, north of and NW of the . It stretches northwards at the head of the , bound by the Kronborg Glacier to the west —beyond which rises the Lilloise Range— and the to the east.[3] The area of the range is uninhabited.[4]
See also[]
- List of mountain ranges of Greenland
- List of Nunataks§Greenland
- Blosseville Coast
References[]
- ^ Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 218
- ^ The fifty-year saga of the aircraft LA-9
- ^ "Wiedemann Bjerge". GeoHack. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Google Earth
External links[]
- Mountain ranges of Greenland
- Nunataks of Greenland
- Sermersooq