In memory of Penck, the painter and sculptor Ralf Winkler adopted the nom de plume A. R. Penck in 1966.
Albrecht Dürer | Albrecht von Haller | Gerd Albrecht | Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | Marko Albrecht | George Alexander Albrecht | Alex Albrecht | Albrecht von Wallenstein | Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg | Georg Albrecht | Albrecht von Roon | Albrecht von Graefe | Albrecht Penck | Albrecht Kossel | Albrecht Behmel | Albrecht Adam | Theodore Albrecht | ''The Battle of Issus'' by Albrecht Altdorfer | Michael von Albrecht | Mark Albrecht | Marc Albrecht | Karl-Albrecht von Groddeck | Johann Albrecht Bengel | '''Georg Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby.''' | Bernhard Albrecht of Limburg and Bronckhorst | A. R. Penck | Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen | Andreas Albrecht | Albrecht von Müller | Albrecht von Goertz |
It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) which named this feature for Albrecht Penck, the Director of the Institute of Oceanography and of the Geographical Institute in Berlin.
Among his teachers at this time the most important were Albrecht Penck, Josef Szombathy and Moritz Hoernes.