Bartholin Peak
Bartholin Peak is a conspicuous peak near the north end of the Boyle Mountains in Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for Erasmus Bartholin, of Copenhagen, whose De Figura Nivis Dissertatio, 1661, includes the earliest known scientific description of snow crystals.Bartholin Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 949 metres
- Description: mountain peak in Graham Land, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.29672° or 67° 17′ 48″ southLongitude
-66.68324° or 66° 40′ 60″ westElevation
949 metres (3,114 feet)Open location code
374MP838+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 9255715867OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bartholin Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bartholin”
- Chinese: “巴托蘭峰”
- Dutch: “Bartholin Peak”
- German: “Bartholin Peak”
- Ladin: “Bartholin Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bartholin Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bartholin Peak”
- Spanish: “Bartholin, pico”
- Swedish: “Bartholin (bergstopp i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Bartholin Peak”
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