Claydon tip

Claydon tip
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height	1090  m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	70 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 70 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E

The Claydonspitze is a 1090  m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Bowers Mountains it rises southeast of the Astachow Glacier and west of the Platypus Ridge near the Oates coast .

Scientists of the German expedition GANOVEX I (1979–1980) made his name. It is named after John Richard Claydon (1917–2014) of the Royal New Zealand Air Force , chief of operations for air support for the southern group in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958).

See also

• List of geographical objects named by the GANOVEX expeditions

Web links

• Claydon tip in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 329-330 (English).