Mount Gniewek

Mount Gniewek
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height	2060 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 79 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Gniewek is a 2060 m high and ice-covered mountain with a flattened summit in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains it rises 10 km southwest of Mount Keltie on the northern flank of the Carlyon Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the geomagnetic scientist John James Gniewek (* 1936), who was at Little Station in 1958 America V was operating.

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