The range was visited in 1932 by a team of geologists belonging to Ejnar Mikkelsen's Second East-Greenland Expedition.

It was named after German naturalist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (1770–1840).

[1] In 1962, a VP-5 Lockheed P-2 Neptune on a patrol mission crashed into the slope of the Kronborg Glacier close to this range, killing all twelve men aboard.

[2] The Wiedemann Range is an up to 1,715 m (5,627 ft) high mountain massif made up of nunataks.

The southern end of the range rises close to the sea, in the Denmark Strait area, north of Cape Stephensen and NW of the Vedel Fjord.