Inan Peak

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Inan Peak
height 2451  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E
Inan Peak (Antarctica)
Inan Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Inan Peak is a 2,451  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises 1.85 km west of Mount Kempe .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the Turkish climate researcher Ümran Savaş İnan (* 1951) from Stanford University , who had carried out studies on the composition of the upper atmosphere in Antarctica at the Siple station and the Palmer station in the 1980s .

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