Angle Peak
Angle Peak | ||
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height | 800 m | |
location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 43 ′ 39 ″ S , 61 ° 59 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
The angle peak is around 800 m high mountain on the Black Coast of the West Antarctic Palmer Lands . It rises as a dominant hill from one of the ridges on the Condor Peninsula south of the confluence of the Cline Glacier in the Odom Inlet .
The United States Geological Survey made a mapping in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after the American ornithologist J. Phillip Angle of the Smithsonian Institution , who undertook bird watching on the west coast of South America and in Antarctica south of Marguerite Bay in 1966 and the results of his studies in 1975 together with his colleague George E. Watson (* 1931) in the book Birds of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic ( ISBN 978-0875901244 ).
Web links
- Angle peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Angle Peak on geographic.org (English)