Conway Peak
Conway Peak | ||
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height | 1800 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 22 '13 " S , 160 ° 53' 45" E | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
The Conway Peak is an ice-free peaks of 1800 m altitude in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises between the Wreath Valley and the Albert Valley in the Apocalypse Peaks .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after the New Zealander Maurice Conway, who served as a field guide for German expeditions to Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land (1979-2000) and for the United States Antarctic Program on Roosevelt Island and to Glacier flows in western Marie-Byrd-Land (1997-2004).
Web links
- Conway Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Conway Peak on geographic.org (English)