Finnemore Peak

Finnemore Peak
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height	2050 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 23 '39 " S , 160 ° 50' 35" E Coordinates: 77 ° 23 '39 " S , 160 ° 50' 35" E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Finnemore Peak is a 2050 m high mountain peak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the group of the Apocalypse Peaks, it rises at the southern end of the ridge that separates the head ends of the Wreath Valley and the Albert Valley .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2005 after the US geoscientist Michelle Rogan Finnemore, who worked in the Antarctic winter of 1990 as a team leader for the geodetic and seismological measurements carried out by the United States Geological Survey at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and in the winter of 1992 was involved in satellite measurements and ionospheric studies at the University of Texas at Austin at McMurdo Station .

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