Komsomol'skiy Peak
| Komsomol'skiy Peak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Komsomol'skiy Peak ( Russian Пик Комсомолский Pik Komsomolski , German ' Komsomolspitze ' ) is a partially snow-covered mountain in the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . It rises from the Antarctic Ice Sheet around 200 km south-southeast of Mount Menzies .
Soviet scientists discovered and named him on January 7, 1958 on a flight from the station at the Pole of Inaccessibility to Mirny Station . Aerial photographs were taken in 1960 during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Komsomol'skiy peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Komsomol'skiy Peak on geographic.org (English)