It is trending in a north–south direction for 15 nautical miles (28 km), from Per Spur to the Gornyye Inzhenery Rocks, in the Wohlthat Mountains of Queen Maud Land.
It was discovered and plotted from air photos by German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–39, and so named by them for its eastern location in the Petermann Ranges.
Mount Deildenapen is a broad mountain mass rising to 2,050 metres (6,730 ft) and forming the east wall of Deildedalen Valley in the Östliche Petermann Range.
They were remapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1960–61, and named "Skaly Gornykh Inzhenerov", meaning "mining engineers' rocks".
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