Hessler Peak

Hessler Peak
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height	1670 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Dunbar Ridge , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 84 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 79 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 84 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ W.

The Hessler Peak is a 1670 m high, pointed mountain peak in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises at the southern end of Dunbar Ridge in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .

The summit was the United States Geological Survey as part of the acquisition of the Ellsworth Mountains in the years 1961-1966 through site surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy mapped. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Victor P. Hessler, an ionospheric physicist from the United States Antarctic Research Program , who worked on the Soviet Vostok station in the Antarctic summer months of 1965/66 and 1966/67 .

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