Cordiner peaks

Cordiner peaks
Highest peak	Jackson Peak ( 1255 m )
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
part of	Pensacola Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 48 ′ S , 53 ° 31 ′ W Coordinates: 82 ° 48 ′ S , 53 ° 31 ′ W
	Map sheet Cordiner Peaks from 1968, Cordiner Peaks in the southeast of the map

The Cordiner Peaks are a group scattered over a distance of around 10 km and in Jackson Peak up to 1,255 m high mountain peaks in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . They are located about eight miles southwest of the Dufek Massif in the northern section of the Pensacola Mountains .

They were discovered and photographed during the transcontinental flight carried out by the United States Navy on January 13, 1956 as part of the first Operation Deep Freeze from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1957 after Captain Douglas Lee Lipscomb Cordiner (1912-1986), a flight observer on board the P2V-2N Neptune , with whom this flight was accomplished. The mapping was done by the United States Geological Survey 1967 to 1968 and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1964.

Web links

^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 357 (English).