Eldridge Peak
| Eldridge Peak | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ohio Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 116 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Eldridge Peak is a small, mainly ice-free mountain peaks or Nunatak in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It marks the western foothills of the Ohio Range in the Horlick Mountains .
The area was geodetically surveyed by the United States Antarctic Program in December 1958. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Henry M. Eldridge, Antarctic cartographer for the United States Geological Survey .
Web links
- Eldridge peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eldridge Peak on geographic.org (English)