Cletrac Peak
| Cletrac Peak | ||
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| height | 745 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 22 ′ 31 ″ S , 59 ° 40 ′ 4 ″ W | |
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The Cletrac Peak is a prominent and 745 m high mountain with steep flanks in Grahamland in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Nordenskjöld coast, it rises just north of Muskeg Gap in the northwest corner of Larsen Inlet .
Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1960 and 1961 were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain on 12 February 1964 following the Cletrac tractor the Cleveland Tractor Company , which in Antarctica for the first time successfully by the US in the second Antarctic expedition (1933 to 1935) polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was used .
Web links
- Cletrac Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cletrac Peak on geographic.org (English)