Dreschhoff Peak
| Dreschhoff Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dreschhoff Peak is a mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wilkniss Mountains of the Quartermain Mountains, it rises southeast of Mount Blackwelder .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1995 after the US physicist Gisela A. M. Dreschhoff from the University of Kansas , who carried out radioactivity measurements and other studies in various regions of Antarctica in eleven campaigns between 1976 and 1989 .
Web links
- Dreschhoff Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dreschhoff Peak on geographic.org (English)