Fremouw Peak
| Fremouw Peak | ||
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| height | 2550 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Fremouw Peak is a prominent mountain peak of 2550 m in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises on the south side of the confluence of the Prebble Glacier in the Walcott Firnfeld .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Edward Joseph Fremouw (* 1934), an aurora scientist of the United States Antarctic Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1959.
Web links
- Fremouw Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fremouw Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 587 (English).