Mount Lopatin
| Mount Lopatin | ||
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| height | 2670 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Lopatin is a 2670 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains it rises 10 km east-southeast of Mount Riddoll .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Boris Lopatin, a Soviet exchange scientist at McMurdo Station in 1968.
Web links
- Mount Lopatin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lopatin on geographic.org (English)