Houser Peak

Houser Peak
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height	1080 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	68 ° 19 ′ 25 ″ S , 65 ° 31 ′ 29 ″ W Coordinates: 68 ° 19 ′ 25 ″ S , 65 ° 31 ′ 29 ″ W

The Houser Peak is a 1,080 m high mountain on the Bowman Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . At the head of the Solberg Inlet, it rises between the Tofani glacier and the Franca glacier .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) and in 1966 by the United States Navy . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1946 and 1948. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1977 after Elaine Houser, a member of the management team of the engineering and equipment company Holmes and Narver from Orange , California , who helped supply the Antarctic stations of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1968 to 1980 .

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