Bettle Peak
| Bettle Peak | ||
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| height | 1490 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Bettle Peak is a 1,490 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises west of the Bowers-Piedmont Glacier and 10 km north of the Granite Knolls .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after the American meteorologist James F. Bettle (1936-2013), scientific director of the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Station in 1962.
Web links
- Bettle Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bettle Peak on geographic.org (English)