Dzema Peak

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Dzema Peak
height 2570  m
location Marie Byrd Land , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 138 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 85 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 138 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W
Dzema Peak (Antarctica)
Dzema Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Dzema Peak is a 2,570  m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 8 km west-southwest of Mount Ratliff on the north side of the Watson Escarpment .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 by John Dzema (1931 to 1969), lieutenant of the squadron VX-6 of the US Navy , which in the Antarctic summer months from 1962 to 1963 and 1963 to 1964 on the McMurdo station worked .

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