Pavlov Peak () is a

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lying north of Mount Vesalius on Liege Island, in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...

. It rises to 805 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 and surmounts Beripara Cove to the east,

Pleystor Glacier Pleystor Glacier (, ) is the 2.2 km long and 1.2 km wide glacier on the west side of Brugmann Mountains on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is situated south-southwest of Zbelsurd Glacier, draining the south sl ...

to the southwest and

Zbelsurd Glacier Zbelsurd Glacier (, ) is the 2.25 km long and 1.6 km wide glacier on the west side of Brugmann Mountains on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is situated southwest of Sigmen Glacier and north-northeast of Pleyst ...

to the northwest.

History

The peak was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1954. It was named by the

United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

(UK-APC) in 1960 for Ivan P. Pavlov (1849–1936), Russian experimental physiologist noted for his work on conditioned reflexes.

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website
Pavlov Peak
on AADC website

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* Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago Liège Island {{LiegeIsland-geo-stub

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