Mount Kowalczyk
| Mount Kowalczyk | ||
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| height | 1690 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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At 1690 m, Mount Kowalczyk is the highest mountain in the Denton Hills in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 1.5 km south of Goat Mountain at the head of the Hobbs Glacier .
It was mapped by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after Chester Kowalczyk, long-time head of the photogrammetry department of the Naval Oceanographic Office of the United States Navy and responsible for the development of maps of the Antarctic.
Web links
- Mount Kowalczyk in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kowalczyk on geographic.org (English)