Fairchild Peak
| Fairchild Peak | ||
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| height | 2180 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Fairchild Peak is a 2,180 m high and rocky mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises 2.5 km south-southeast of Portal Rock on the south side of the confluence of the Tillit Glacier in the Lennox King Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after William W. Fairchild, a radiation scientist with the United States Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station in 1961.
Web links
- Fairchild Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fairchild Peak on geographic.org (English)