Borowski Peak

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Borowski Peak
On the map sheet from 1963, the summit, which was only named in 2000, is still listed without a name and only with the elevation mark 1176 (in the west of the HORNEY BLUFF and north of the BYRD GLACIER)

On the map sheet from 1963, the summit, which was only named in 2000, is still listed without a name and only with the elevation mark 1176 (in the west of the HORNEY BLUFF and north of the BYRD GLACIER )

height 1176  m
location Australian Antarctic Territory
Mountains Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 80 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E
Borowski Peak (Antarctica)
Borowski Peak

The Borowski peak is a small, striking and 1176  m high peaks in Australian Antarctic territories . In the Nebraska Peaks of the Britannia Range, it rises 9 km southwest of Rand Peak .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2000 after the German geophysicist Daniel Borowski from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven , who was involved in the Ross Ice Shelf Project of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1974 to 1975 .

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