Beaudoin Peak

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Beaudoin Peak
height 980  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Meyer Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 79 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 81 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 79 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 81 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W
Beaudoin Peak (Antarctica)
Beaudoin Peak

The Beaudoin Peak is a 980  m high, snow-free peaks in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Land . It rises in the southeastern part of the Meyer Hills in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .

He was accompanied by United States Geological Survey as part of the acquisition of the Ellsworth Mountains in the years 1961 to 1966 through site surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy mapped. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 Douglas W. Beaudoin, a member of the United States Antarctic Research Program , who had worked as a meteorologist at Ellsworth Station in 1961 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Beaudoin Peak ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 24, 2010.