Cutcliffe Peak
| Cutcliffe Peak | ||
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| height | 1645 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cutcliffe peak is around 1645 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises immediately south of Mount Mervyn .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1965 were used for mapping purposes. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Maxwell Arthur Cutcliffe (* 1930), electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1966, who also helped with geodetic surveys.
Web links
- Cutcliffe Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cutcliffe Peak on geographic.org (English)