Cressey Peak
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 Topographic map with Cressey Peak (center) |
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| height | 870 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 143 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Cressey Peak is a 870 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises 11 km east of the Harold Byrd Mountains between the southeastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf on the Gould Coast and the Watson Escarpment .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Richard N. Cressey, warehouse manager at Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1958.
Web links
- Cressey Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cressey Peak on geographic.org (English)