Čiurlionis Mountain

The Čiurlionis Mountain (Russian: Гора Чурляниса) is a basalt mountain plateau by the Tikhaya Bay at the Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land, Russia.

[1] The memoirs of polar explorer and artist Nikolay Pinegin [ru] who saw the area when he was taking part in a 1913 polar expedition of Georgy Sedov say: "On the foggy days when we saw these headlands, they resembled the visions of the fantasy painter Čiurlionis".

[2] A member of another expedition to the area, Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Markin, published a photo in his book, from which it can be concluded that the inspiration was the painting Stillness by Čiurlionis.

[2] Later the mountain was split into two objects: its plateau foothills were named Čiurlionis Plateau (плато Чюрлениса) and its iceberg-covered dome was called Čiurlionis Dome (купол Чюрлениса).

During 1959-1961 the Čiurlionis Dome hosted a meteorological station (no.