Dybvadskog Peak

Dybvadskog Peak
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height	2180 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 79 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W

The Dybvadskog peak is 2,180 meters high, pointed and somewhat isolated mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Land . In the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises from the ice masses immediately west of the southern section of the Founders Escarpment .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the Norwegian glaciologist Olav Bjarne Dybvadskog (* 1936) from the Norwegian Polar Institute , who im Had participated in the exploration crossing of Queen Maud Land from the geographic South Pole from 1964 to 1965 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .

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