Fadden Peak
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 Topographic map with Fadden Peak (center) |
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| height | 920 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 142 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Fadden Peak is a 920 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises 3 km west of Cressey Peak between the southeast edge of the Ross Ice Shelf on the Gould Coast and the Watson Escarpment .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Dean E. Fadden (* 1934), plumber on the Byrd station in the Antarctic winter of 1958.
Web links
- Fadden Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fadden Peak on geographic.org (English)