Östliche Petermann Range

A number of features in the Östliche Petermann Range have been charted and named by expeditions and survey groups, primarily the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-39 and the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1956–60.

Mount Deildenapen is a broad mountain mass rising to {{convert|2,050|m}} and forming the east wall of Deildedalen Valley in the Östliche Petermann Range.{{cite gnis|type=antarid|id=3683|name=Mount Deildenapen|accessdate=2012-01-06}} The Deildedalen Valley, which is a small valley partly filled with ice and opening to the north, sits between Mount Deildenapen and a similar mountain mass just to the west.{{cite gnis | type = antarid | id = 3681| name = Deildedalen Valley| accessdate = 2018-08-14}} Deildegasten Ridge is a ridge about {{convert|5|nmi|km|-1}} long which rises just south of Deildedalen Valley.{{cite gnis | type = antarid | id = 3682| name = Deildegasten Ridge | accessdate = 2018-08-14}} The root word "Deilde" in all of these names means "divide" or "border" in Norwegian.{{Cite web|url=https://ordbok.uib.no/perl/ordbok.cgi?OPP=deilde|title=Bokmålsordboka {{!}} Nynorskordboka|website=ordbok.uib.no|access-date=2018-08-14}} Hence Deildenapen means "the dividing mountain", and Deildedalen means "the dividing valley". Dildegasten refers to the deildegast, which in Norse folklore was the ghost of a person who disrespected border-stones in life.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwngAAAAMAAJ&q=Deildegast&dq=Deildegast|title=Phantoms and Fairies: From Norwegian Folklore|last=Bringsværd|first=Tor Åge|date=1970|publisher=Tanum|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObBIx-37K-wC&q=Deildegast&dq=Deildegast|title=Norges land og folk: Nedenes amt, udg. ved A. T. Helland|date=1904|publisher=Aschehoug|language=da}}

On the south part of Deildegasten Ridge, Mount Razumovskiy rises {{cvt|2285|m}}. It was discovered and plotted from air photos by the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–39, then from air photos and surveys by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1956–60. Finally, it was remapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1960–61, and named after Soviet geologist N.K. Razumovskiy, 1893–1967.{{cite gnis | type = antarid | accessdate = 2018-08-14| id = 12403 | name = Mount Razumovskiy}}

The northern extremity of the range is marked by Per Spur, named for J. Per Madsen, a meteorologist with Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1958–59.{{cite gnis | type = antarid | accessdate = 2018-08-14| id = 11642 | name = Per Spur}} Vitnesteinen Rock is a large rock outcrop along the west side of the range. Its name means "the witness stone" in Norwegian.{{cite gnis | type = antarid | accessdate = 2018-08-14 | id = 16103 | name = Vitnesteinen Rock}} Just south of Deildegasten Ridge are the Gornyye Inzhenery Rocks, a group of rocks first discovered and plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. They were remapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1960–61, and named "Skaly Gornykh Inzhenerov", meaning "mining engineers' rocks".{{cite gnis | type = antarid | accessdate = 2018-08-14| id = 5860 | name = Gornyye Inzhenery Rocks}}

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