Mount Ivins
| Mount Ivins | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 58 ′ 0 " S , 63 ° 29 ′ 54" W | |
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Mount Ivins is a roughly 2000 m high, snow-covered and ridge-like mountain in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the most distinctive of a series of mountains between the Fleece and Leppard glaciers .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2017. It is named after the American physicist Erik Ivins (* 1949), chief scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , who made decisive contributions to the isostasis of the glacial ice masses in Antarctica .
Web links
- Ivens, Mount . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland and the South Orkney Islands (English)