Jatko Peak
Jatko Peak | ||
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height | 2050 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Clare Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Jatko peak is 2,050 m high and pointed mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Clare Range, it rises 2.8 km northwest of Dykes Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2007 after Joyce Ann Jatko (* 1949), who worked in the Polar Programs Department of the National Science Foundation from 1994 to 2003 and was a member of the Environmental Protection Committee of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research .
Web links
- Jatko Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jatko Peak on geographic.org (English)