Mount Kurchatov

Mount Kurchatov
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height	2220 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv
Coordinates	71 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Kurchatov ( Russian Гора Курчатова Gora Kurtschatowa ) is a 2220 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains of the Wohlthatmassiv it rises from the Sponskaftet .

He was discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Scientists of a Soviet Antarctic expedition carried out from 1960 to 1961 mapped it again and named it after the Soviet physicist Igor Wassiljewitsch Kurchatow (1903-1960). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1970.

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