Crandall Peak

Crandall Peak
	; Image wanted
height	1840 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	71 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Crandall Peak is a 1,840 m high and mostly snow-covered mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains, it rises in the middle of the west face of the Pitkevitch Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Lieutenant Eugene D. Crandall, commander of an LC-130F of the VX-6 flight squadron at Operation Deep Freeze in 1968.

Web links