Hollister Peak

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Hollister Peak
height 4297  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 32 '43 "  S , 85 ° 35' 19"  W Coordinates: 78 ° 32 '43 "  S , 85 ° 35' 19"  W
Hollister Peak (Antarctica)
Hollister Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Hollister Peak is a 4,297  m high mountain peaks in the Ellsworth Mountains of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It rises 1.9 km south of Mount Vinson in the center of the summit plateau of the Vinson massif .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the summit in 2006 after the US geologist and oceanographer Charles Davis Hollister (1936-1999), participant in the American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition (1966-1967), during which the first ascent of the Vinson massif and others Summit in the Sentinel Range succeeded.

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