Mount Kostka
| Mount Kostka | ||
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| height | 1210 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Anare Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Kostka ( Russian Гора Костка Gora Kostka ) is a 1210 m high mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Anare Mountains, it rises 5 km southeast of Saddle Peak on the western flank of the Sykow Glacier .
Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used to map it. Scientists on a Soviet Antarctic expedition carried out surveys in 1958. The namesake of the 1961 naming is the Czechoslovak meteorologist Oldřich Kostka (1924-1960), who died on August 3, 1960 in the fire at the Mirny station along with seven other scientists. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian name into English in 1964.
Web links
- Mount Kostka in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kostka on geographic.org (English)