Bradshaw Peak
| Bradshaw Peak | ||
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| height | 1640 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Bradshaw Peak is a 1,640 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it rises 6 km southeast of Turk Peak on the southwest flank of the McLay Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on February 27, 2003 after the New Zealand geologist and paleontologist Margaret Ann Bradshaw, who in 1979 became the first woman to lead a field research team in Antarctica .
Web links
- Bradshaw peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bradshaw Peak on geographic.org (English)