Mount Kolodkin

Mount Kolodkin
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height	2525 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Well-being, massive
Coordinates	71 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Kolodkin ( Russian Гора Колодкина Gora Kolodkina , Norwegian Kolodkinhøgda ) is a 2525 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the southern Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif, it rises 2.5 km southeast of the Pineginspitze .

It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . The third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) and Soviet scientists between 1960 and 1961 carried out new mapping based on their own aerial photographs and measurements . The latter named the mountain after the Russian ship designer Jakob Alexejewitsch Kolodkin (1785–1853), builder of the research vessels and Wostok Mirny of the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) under the direction of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Russian name to English in 1970.

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