Caldwell Peak
| Caldwell Peak | ||
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| height | 1300 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 '0 " S , 167 ° 54' 0" E | |
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The Caldwell Peak is a 1300 m high mountain peak on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 3 km north of Mount Terra Nova and 1.5 km south of Oamaru Peak .
At the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the summit in 2000 after the American geologist David A. Caldwell (* 1961) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology , who was involved in two field research campaigns starting in 1986 Master's thesis on the lava flows at Mount Erebus .
Web links
- Caldwell peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Caldwell Peak on geographic.org (English)