Eisner Peak
| Eisner Peak | ||
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| height | 1525 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 50 ′ 11 ″ S , 65 ° 41 ′ 22 ″ W | |
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The Eisner Peak is a 1,525 m high mountain on the Bowman Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km south-southeast of Mount Blunt on the western flank of the confluence of the Sumner Glacier in the Weyerhaeuser Glacier .
Aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the US Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) and in 1966 by the United States Navy . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the mountain between 1960 and 1961. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1977 after Glen Eisner, a biologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at Palmer Station in 1975.
Web links
- Eisner Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eisner Peak on geographic.org (English)