Breckinridge Peak

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Breckinridge Peak
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Breckinridge Peak (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Breckinridge Peak (bottom left)

height 570  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  W
Breckinridge Peak (Antarctica)
Breckinridge Peak

The Breckinridge Peak is a 570  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it rises 1.5 km southwest of Mount Nilsen in the southern group of the Rockefeller Mountains .

It was discovered in 1929 during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . He named him after his friend, the US politician and lawyer Henry Breckinridge (1886-1960) and his wife, the Cuban pilot Aida de Acosta (1884-1962).

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