Pawson Peak
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 Pawson Peak |
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| height | 250 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 '18 " S , 58 ° 28' 13" W | |
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The Pawson Peak is an isolated, irregularly conical and 250 m high mountain on King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises west-northwest of Sphinx Hill on Admiralty Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1977 after Kenneth Pawson (1923-2014), weather observer of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at Port Lockroy (1947-1948) and his surveyor's assistant in Admiralty Bay (1948-1950). Polish scientists, however, named the mountain as Iglica Czajkowskiego ( German Czajkowski needle ) after the Polish geophysicist Ryszard Czajkowski (* 1933), who climbed it between 1977 and 1978.
Web links
- Pawson Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pawson Peak on geographic.org (English)