Derrick Peak

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Derrick Peak
Topographic map of the western section of the Britannia Range with Derrick Peak (top right)

Topographic map of the western section of the Britannia Range with Derrick Peak (top right)

height 2070  m
location Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica
Mountains Britannia Range
Coordinates 80 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  S , 156 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 80 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  S , 156 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E
Derrick Peak (Antarctica)
Derrick Peak

The Derrick Peak is a 2,070  m high, distinctive and ice-free mountain in the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains . It rises three miles west of the northern end of Johnstone Ridge above the southern flank of Hatherton Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Robert O. Derrick of the United States Weather Bureau , who was assistant to the representative of the United States Antarctic Research Program in Christchurch , New Zealand , from 1960 until his death in 1966 .

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