Fields Peak
| Fields Peak | ||
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| height | 1970 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Felder Peak is a rocky and 1970 m high mountain peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains, it looms between the mouth of the McCleary Glacier and the Darwin Glacier and the west side of Starbuck Cirque .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2002. It is named after Robert P. Felder (* 1956) from Ohio State University , who together with Gunter Faure (* 1934) carried out geological surveys in the nearby Brown Hills between 1978 and 1979 .
Web links
- Fields peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Felder Peak on geographic.org (English)