Mount Karpinskiy
| Mount Karpinskiy | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Russkiye Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 18 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Karpinskiy ( Russian Гора Карпинского Gora Karpinskowo ) is an isolated mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Russkiye Mountains it rises 17.5 km south of the Zhelannaya Mountain .
Scientists on a Soviet Antarctic expedition discovered and mapped it in 1959. It is named after the Russian geologist Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (1847–1936), President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian designation into English in 1971.
Web links
- Mount Karpinskiy in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Karpinskiy on geographic.org (English)