Jacobs Peak

Jacobs Peak
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height	2040 m
location	Australian Antarctic Territory
Mountains	Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 80 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E

The Jacobs Peak is a 2,040 m high mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range, it towers over the northern end of a mountain ridge on the western flank of the Ragotzkie Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1965 after the US ionosphere physicist John Douglas Jacobs, who worked as an exchange scientist at the Vostok station in 1964 .

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