Britt Peak

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Britt Peak
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Flood Range with Britt Peak (center)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Flood Range with Britt Peak (center)

height 3069  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Flood range
Coordinates 76 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 135 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 76 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 135 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  W
Britt Peak (Antarctica)
Britt Peak

The Britt Peak is a small and 3069  m high mountain peaks in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises immediately southwest of the summit of Mount Moulton in the Flood Range .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Dale R. Britt, a construction worker on the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1969 .

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