Corbet Peak

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Corbet Peak
height 4822  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 31 ′ 31 ″  S , 85 ° 32 ′ 50 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 31 ′ 31 ″  S , 85 ° 32 ′ 50 ″  W
Corbet Peak (Antarctica)
Corbet Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Corbet Peak is a 4822  m high mountain peak in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 1.4 km east 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 American mountaineer Barry Corbet (1936-2004), participant in 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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