Mount Dragovan
| Mount Dragovan | ||
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| height | 2360 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 22 '58 " S , 160 ° 42' 37" E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Dragovan peak is 2,360 meters the highest peak of the Apocalypse Peaks in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises in the western part of the mountain range west of the Wreath Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after the astronomer Mark W. Dragovan, who was involved in the construction of a telescope at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1986 to study early space structures, which he undertook there between 1988 and 2000.
Web links
- Dragovan Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dragovan Peak on geographic.org (English)