Mount Birkenmajer
| Mount Birkenmajer | ||
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| height | 360 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 3 ′ 30 ″ S , 58 ° 24 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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Mount Birkenmajer ( Polish: Góra Birkenmajera ) is a mountain with double peaks or a mountain range on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands , depending on the design . The south summit is 300 m and the north summit 360 m high. It rises up between the Piasecki Pass and the Rolnicki Pass on the Keller peninsula .
Polish scientists named him after the Polish geologist Krzysztof Birkenmajer (1929-2019), from 1978 head of working groups at the Arctowski station in three consecutive Antarctic summer campaigns . The British geologist Michael John Stansbury (* 1934) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named the south summit as Babylon Peak during his work on King George Island from 1959 to 1960 .
Web links
- Mount Birkenmajer in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)