Clinch peak

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Clinch peak
height 4841  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 32 '8 "  S , 85 ° 30' 45"  W Coordinates: 78 ° 32 '8 "  S , 85 ° 30' 45"  W
Clinch Peak (Antarctica)
Clinch peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Clinch Peak is a 4841  m high mountain peak in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 2.2 km southeast of Mount Vinson on the summit plateau of the Vinson massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the US mountaineer Nicholas Bayard Clinch , head of the American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition (1966-1967), in which the first ascent of the Vinson massif and other high mountains in the Sentinel Range succeeded.

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