Dallmeyer Peak
| Dallmeyer Peak | ||
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| height | 1105 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 54 '14 " S , 62 ° 44' 25" W | |
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The Dallmeyer Peak is a 1,105 m high mountain on the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km west of Steinheil Point on the south bank of Andvord Bay .
The mountain is first shown on an Argentine map from 1952. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain on 23 September 1960 after the German-British optician John Henry Dallmeyer (1830-1983), who in 1866 independently Hugo Adolph Steinheil an aplanatic had developed under the name rapid rectilinear led .
Web links
- Dallmeyer Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dallmeyer Peak on geographic.org (English)