Gilliamsen Peak

Gilliamsen Peak
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height	650  m
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains	Staccato peaks
Coordinates	71 ° 51 ′ 12 ″  S , 70 ° 18 ′ 18 ″  W Coordinates: 71 ° 51 ′ 12 ″  S , 70 ° 18 ′ 18 ″  W

The Gilliamsen peak is approximately 650  m high mountain in the south of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It rises at the southeast end of the Staccato Peaks .

The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth made the first aerial photographs in 1935. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain after Lieutenant Commander Donald Anthony Gilliamsen (1930-2017) of the United States Navy , pilot of the Navy squadron VXE-6 in Operation Deep Freeze in 1969 and 1970.

Web links

• Gilliamsen peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Gilliamsen Peak on geographic.org (English)