Hayes Peak (Marie Byrd Land)

Hayes Peak
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height	2060 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Thiel Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 89 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 89 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Hayes Peak is a 2,060 m high, rocky and isolated mountaintop in West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Thiel Mountains, it rises from the surrounding ice masses just south of the Bermel Escarpment .

The cartographer Peter Frank Bermel and the geologist Arthur B. Ford , who jointly led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey to the Thiel Mountains from 1960 to 1961, named it after the American geologist Philip T. Hayes, who from 1958 to 1959 worked for the survey in the Antarctic dry valleys .

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