Mount Yakovlev
| Mount Yakovlev | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Russkiye Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 16 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Yakovlev ( Russian Гора Яковлева Gora Jakowlewa ) is a somewhat isolated mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Russkiye Mountains it rises 18 km north of the Sarkofagen .
Cartographers from the Norsk Polarinstitutt mapped it using aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959. Scientists from a Soviet Antarctic expedition mapped it again in 1959 and named it. It is named after the Soviet paleontologist Nikolai Jakowlew (1870–1966). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian designation into English in 1971.
Web links
- Mount Yakovlev in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Yakovlev on geographic.org (English)