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Mountain peak in Graham Land, Antarctica
Bartholin Peak
Highest point
Elevation1,946 m (6,385 ft)
Prominence1,479 m (4,852 ft)
ListingRibu

Bartholin Peak (67°17′S 66°42′W / 67.283°S 66.700°W / -67.283; -66.700) 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.

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