Mount Borodin
| Mount Borodin | ||
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| height | 694 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 36 '11 " S , 72 ° 37' 38" W | |
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Mount Borodin is a mostly icy and 694 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee around 300 m ) high mountain with a rocky outcrop on the east flank in the southwest of Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Beethoven Peninsula, it rises 11 km north-northeast of Gluck Peak and north of Boccherini Inlet .
A number of mountains in the area appear for the first time on maps that were created during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). Mount Borodin in particular was mapped by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during Finn Ronne's expedition. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1961 after the Russian composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887).
Web links
- Mount Borodin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Borodin on geographic.org (English)