Mount Veynberg
| Mount Veynberg | ||
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| height | 900 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Haslam Heights | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 27 '10 " S , 67 ° 32' 21" W | |
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Mount Veynberg is an approximately 900 m high mountain on the Loubet coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arrowsmith Peninsula, it looms in the southern part of Haslam Heights .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Russian physicist Boris Petrowitsch Weinberg (1871-1942), who pioneered the mechanical and flow properties of ice under laboratory conditions in 1936.
Web links
- Mount Veynberg in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Veynberg on geographic.org (English)