Fikkan Peak

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Fikkan Peak
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Daniels Range , Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E
Fikkan Peak (Antarctica)
Fikkan Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)
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The Fikkan Peak is a mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the west face of the Daniels Range in the Usarp Mountains, it rises between Big Brother Bluff and Mount Burnham .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the geologist Philip R. Fikkan (* 1939), who worked from 1967 to 1968 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the McMurdo station worked.

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