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). 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. The crash site was finally discovered in 1966 when four geologists found it, but it was not until 2004 that the
US Navy recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site. ==Geography==