Gluck Peak

Gluck Peak
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height	335 m
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Coordinates	71 ° 42 ′ 37 ″ S , 72 ° 41 ′ 15 ″ W Coordinates: 71 ° 42 ′ 37 ″ S , 72 ° 41 ′ 15 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Gluck Peak is a 335 m high mountain on the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It rises 10.5 km south-southwest of Mount Borodin on the Beethoven Peninsula .

The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey first mapped it in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after the German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787).

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