Wegener Range is a mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 range with peaks rising to 1,800 m, trending WNW-ESE for about 45 nautical miles (80 km) between Maury Glacier

Maury Glacier

Maury Glacier is a glacier 4 nautical miles wide, flowing in an east-northeast direction to the southwest corner of Violante Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service...

 and Fenton Glacier

Fenton Glacier

Fenton Glacier is a glacier that drains south into Mosby Glacier just east of Mount Adkins in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961-67. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Ernest R. Fenton, U.S. Navy,...

 in southeast Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. The range was first photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940; rephotographed by the U.S. Navy, 1966–69, and mapped from these photographs by the United States Geological Survey

United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...

 (USGS). In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) after Professor Alfred L. Wegener

Alfred Wegener

Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist.He is most notable for his theory of continental drift , proposed in 1912, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth...

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