Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck. Born in Reudnitz near Leipzig...
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The Albrecht-Penck-Medaille is a scientific award of the Deutsche Quartärvereinigung (German Quaternary Union), given to an individual who made outstanding...
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erosion. Walther Penck was born in Vienna as the son of German geographer Albrecht Penck. He obtained a PhD by studying petrology at the Heidelberg University...
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Evans Piedmont Glacier (redirect from Albrecht Penck Glacier)
the south. Named coastal features include Tripp Bay, Tripp Island, Albrecht Penck Glacier, Depot Island, Cape Ross, Gregory Island and Cape Archer. 76°37′S...
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Penck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. R. Penck (1939–2017), German painter, sculptor and printmaker Albrecht Penck (1858–1945)...
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July plot) Albrecht Müller, (1939–2018), German sprint canoer and rower Albrecht Penck, (1858–1945), German geographer and geologist Albrecht Pfister, (c...
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internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in 1891. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established...
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of electricity reportedly date back to 1912 from Berlin geographer Albrecht Penck. The subject was first discussed in more detail by John Ball in 1927...
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(1865–1949) was his supervisor. Haushofer then worked as an assistant for Albrecht Penck. A fellow student in geopolitics was Rudolf Hess, a very early follower...
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coincides with the Saale glaciation of North Germany. The name goes back to Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner who named this cold period after the river Riss...
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Artists, now under the artistic pseudonym A. R. Penck. which was chosen after the geologist Albrecht Penck. Since 1969, he had increasingly problems with...
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1911–1914, under Mawson, and named for Albrecht Penck, an internationally known German geographer. Cape Penck 66°43′45″S 87°55′20″E / 66.72917°S 87...
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vessel operated by the Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, named Professor Albrecht Penck. The ship was built in 1951 at the Sachsenberg-Werke [de] shipyard....
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the vessel Alan Kurdi (formerly the oceanographic vessel Professor Albrecht Penck) in July 2021 and renamed the ship Resq People; it began operating on...
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the third youngest glacial stage in the Alps. Its name was coined by Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner, who named it after the Swabian river, the Mindel...
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(1982), p. 29 Şengör (1982), p. 31 Bremer, Hanna (1983). "Albrecht Penck (1858–1945) and Walther Penck (1888–1923), two German geomorphologists". Zeitschrift...
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Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after German geographer Albrecht Penck. The glacier has a length of about 22 kilometers, and is situated west...
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and vegetation. An early attempt at morphoclimatic zoning is that of Albrecht Penck in 1910, who divided Earth in three zones depending on the evaporation-precipitation...
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with Zeune were Hermann Wagner, Theobald Fischer, Marion Newbigin, and Albrecht Penck, while Austrian diplomat Johann Georg von Hahn, in 1869, for the same...
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anthropogeography")—a term coined by University of Vienna geographer Albrecht Penck in 1924—and geographical cultural or human ecology (Harlan H. Barrows...
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(1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher, and named for German geographer Albrecht Penck. Maps of the German Antarctic Expedition incorrectly represent this...
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(1890) Adrien de Gerlache (1900) Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1891) Albrecht Penck (1899) Alick Buchanan-Smith (1974) Angus Buchanan (1924) Anne Glover...
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Günz-Kaltzeit, also Günz-Glazial, Günz-Komplex and Günz-Eiszeit) goes back to Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner, who named this ice age after the River Günz in...
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4 km (13,000 feet). It was named after Albrecht Penck (1858–1945), a German geographer and geologist. "Mons Penck". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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(Greece, fl. c. 150) Ceri Peach (Wales, 1939–2018) Albrecht Penck (Germany, 1858–1945) Walther Penck (Germany, 1888–1923) Jocelyne Pérard (France, born...
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generation of electricity date back to 1912 from Berlin geographer Albrecht Penck. The subject was discussed in more detail by Dr. John Ball in 1927,...
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Anne Frank, German-born Jewish diarist (typhus) (born 1929) 7 March — Albrecht Penck, German geographer and geologist (born 1858) 14 March – Mary Helen Young...
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the Austrian geographer Norbert Krebs (Krebs was a prominent pupil of Albrecht Penck and influenced Carl O. Sauer in his writings on the morphology of landscape)...
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who named this feature for German geographer Albrecht Penck. List of glaciers in the Antarctic "Penck Glacier, Antarctica". Geographical Names. Retrieved...
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saving people) Germany 38.6 m Formerly oceanographic vessel Professor Albrecht Penck. Began Dec. 2018; Seized, Palermo, May - June 2020; Seized, Olbia, Oct...
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