Mount Przywitowski
| Mount Przywitowski | ||
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| height | 2770 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Przywitowski is a 2770 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 4 km west of McNally Peak on the southeast flank of Holdsworth Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the US ionospheric physicist Richard F. Przywitowski (* 1943), who im Worked as scientific director of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1966 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Mount Przywitowski in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Przywitowski on geographic.org (English)