Bartholin Peak
| Bartholin Peak | ||
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| height | 2100 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Boyle Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 17 ′ 46 ″ S , 66 ° 41 ′ 16 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Bartholin Peak is a distinctive, about 2100 m high mountain on the north end of the Boyle Mountains in the west of the Antarctic Graham Lands .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the Danish naturalist Erasmus Bartholin (1625–1698), whose work De Figura Nivis Dissertatio from 1661 contains the earliest known scientific description of snow crystals .
Web links
- Bartholin Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bartholin Peak on geographic.org (English)