Chuan Peak
| Chuan Peak | ||
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| height | 2200 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Chuan Peak is an approximately 2200 m high mountain peak on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 1.5 km northeast of Barker Peak in the southern part of Giggenbach Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle. The namesake is Raymond L. Chuan of the Brunswick Corporation , who worked from 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1987 in a project to study volcanic aerosols between the geographic South Pole and Mount Erebus .
Web links
- Chuan Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chuan Peak on geographic.org (English)