The Wiedemann Range () is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

in King Christian IX Land, eastern

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

. Administratively this range is part of the

Sermersooq Sermersooq () is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five previous, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous ...

Municipality.

History

The range was visited in 1932 by a team of geologists belonging to

Ejnar Mikkelsen Ejnar Mikkelsen (23 December 1880 – 1 May 1971) was a Danish polar explorer and writer. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland. Biography Mikkelsen was born on 23 December 1880, in Brønderslev, Vester Brønderslev, Jutland, th ...

's Second East-Greenland Expedition. It was named after German naturalist

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (7 December 1770 – 31 December 1840) was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist. He is best known for his studies of world Diptera, but he also studied Hymenoptera and Coleoptera, al ...

(1770–1840).Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland'', 2008 p. 218 In 1962, a

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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

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recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site.The fifty-year saga of the aircraft LA-9
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Geography

The Wiedemann Range is an up to high mountain massif made up of

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...

s. The southern end of the range rises close to the sea, in the

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area, north of Cape Stephensen and NW of the Vedel Fjord. It stretches northwards at the head of the Wiedemann Fjord, bound by the Kronborg Glacier to the west —beyond which rises the Lilloise Range— and the Borggraven Glacier to the east. The area of the range is uninhabited.

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External links

The East Greenland rifted volcanic margin - ResearchGate
Mountain ranges of Greenland Nunataks of Greenland Sermersooq

History

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