Mount Barkow
| Mount Barkow | ||
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| height | 1390 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 22 '24 " S , 62 ° 52' 30" W | |
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Mount Barkow is a 1390 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 1395 m ) high mountain in the east of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 20 miles west of Court-Nunatak and New Bedford Inlet and marks the eastern end of a ridge between the Haines and Meinardus glaciers .
He was discovered and photographed from the air during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) during an overflight in December 1940. Additional aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during an overflight as part of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) under the direction of US polar researcher Finn Ronne , who also carried out geodetic surveys in collaboration with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The FIDS named it after the German meteorologist Erich Barkow (1882-1923), participant in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911-1912) under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner .
Web links
- Mount Barkow in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Barkow on geographic.org (English)