Dibble Peak
Dibble Peak | ||
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height | 1100 m | |
location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
Mountains | Kyle Hills | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dibble Peak is a 1,100 m high mountain peaks on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 3.7 km southwest of Post Office Hill as the highest and most southwestern elevation of Warren Ridge in the Kyle Hills .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle. It is named after the geophysicist Raymond Russel Dibble of the Victoria University of Wellington , who studied the volcanic and seismic activity of Mount Erebus on Ross Island in five campaigns between 1980 and 1985 and there between 1993 and 1998 in four United States Antarctic campaigns Program was involved in building seismic monitoring stations with Kyle.
Web links
- Dibble peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dibble Peak on geographic.org (English)