Harvey Summit
| Harvey Summit | ||
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| height | 2644 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 18 '52 " S , 162 ° 18' 9" O | |
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The Harvey Summit is a 2644 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises at the head of the McDermott Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after John W. Harvey (* 1940) of the National Solar Observatory of the University of Colorado Boulder , who in 1980 together with his colleagues Thomas L. Duvall Jr. and Martin A. Pomerantz (1916-2008) had conducted helioseismological studies at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Harvey Summit in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harvey Summit on geographic.org (English)