Gora Stahanova

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Gora Stahanova
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location Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains Read Mountains in the Shackleton Range
Coordinates 80 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 23 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 23 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  W
Gora Stahanova (Antarctica)
Gora Stahanova
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Gora Stahanova ( transliteration from Russian Гора Стаханова Gora Stachanowa ) is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Read Mountains of the Shackleton Range, it rises southeast of the Strachey Stump .

Russian scientists named him. The further naming background has not been passed down. A possible namesake is the Russian miner Alexei Grigoryevich Stachanow (1906–1977), after whom the Stakhanov movement was named.

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