Dobrowolski Peak
| Dobrowolski Peak | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Arctowski Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Dobrowolski Peak ( Polish Szczyt Dobrowolskiego ) is a mountain on King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises up in the Arctowski Mountains .
Polish scientists named it in 1981 after the Polish geophysicist and meteorologist Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski (1872–1954), participant in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery and later head of the Polish meteorological institute, today Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Vodnej .
Web links
- Dobrowolski Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)