The Wilckens Peaks are a group of mountain peaks, the highest 1,375 m, in the form of an arc which extends from the north side of Keilhau Glacier

Keilhau Glacier

Keilhau Glacier is a glacier 5 miles long flowing west from Kohl Plateau and then southwest to Jossac Bight, on the south coast of South Georgia. Mapped by Olaf Holtedahl during his visit to South Georgia in 1927-28, and named by him for Baltazar M. Keilhau , Norwegian geologist and professor of...

 to the north side of Neumayer Glacier

Neumayer Glacier

Neumayer Glacier is a glacier, 8 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, which flows east along the north flank of the Allardyce Range to the west side of the head of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia...

 in South Georgia. The peaks were roughly located in 1928-29 by Ludwig Kohl-Larsen

Ludwig Kohl-Larsen

Ludwig Kohl-Larsen was a German physician, amateur anthropologist, and explorer.-Biography:...

 who gave the name "Wilckenskette" after Otto Wilckens of Bonn University. An English form of the name has been accepted.