Benoit Peak
| Benoit Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Benoit Peak is a mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 8 km north-northeast of Mount Camelot in the Alamein Range of the Freyberg Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1969 after the American biologist Robert E. Benoit (* 1934), who in worked on the McMurdo station in the Antarctic summers 1966/1967 and 1967/1968 .
Web links
- Benoit Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Benoit Peak on geographic.org (English)