Ugolini Peak

Ugolini Peak
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height	2260 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 78 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E

The Ugolini Peak is a 2,260 m high and pointed mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range it rises up from the Colwell massif 10 km south of the Knobhead on the southern flank of the upper Ferrar glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the Italian pedologist Fiorenzo Caesare Ugolini (* 1929), who examined the soil processes in the region around McMurdo Sound between 1961 and 1962 and from 1962 to 1963 .

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