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    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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  • 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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