Mount Karpinskiy () is an isolated mountain about south of
Zhelannaya Mountain in the
Russkiye Mountains of
Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land () is a roughly region of Antarctica Territorial claims in Antarctica, claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20th meridian west, 20° west, specifically the Caird Coast, ...
, Antarctica. It was observed and mapped by the
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It was ...
in 1959, and named for geologist
A.P. Karpinskiy, President of the
Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.[
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References
Mountains of Queen Maud Land
Princess Astrid Coast
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