Chervov Peak
| Chervov Peak | ||
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| height | 2550 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shcherbakov Mountains , Orvinfjella | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 10 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Chervov Peak ( English ; Russian Гора Червова Gora Tscherwowa ) is a 2550 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Shcherbakow Mountains of Orvinfjella it rises 1.5 km north of Mørkenatten .
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Further mapping was carried out on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) and again during a Soviet expedition that lasted from 1960 to 1961. Participants in the latter research trip named him after the Soviet geologist Yevgeny I. Chervov, participant in a Soviet Antarctic expedition carried out from 1958 to 1959 . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian designation into English in 1970.
Web links
- Chervov Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chervov Peak on geographic.org (English)