Borowski Peak
Borowski Peak | ||
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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 ) |
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height | 1176 m | |
location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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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 .
Web links
- Borowski Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Borowski Peak on geographic.org (English)