Kelley Peak (Antarctica)

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Kelley Peak
height 1710  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Liberty Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 82 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 82 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  W
Kelley Peak (Antarctica) (Antarctica)
Kelley Peak (Antarctica)
Map of the region.

The Kelley Peak is a 1710  m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises at the southern end of the Liberty Hills on the west side of the Horseshoe Valley .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after Charles C. Kelley of the United States Navy , who died as a member of the crew in the crash of the Douglas LC-47J Spirit of McMurdo on the Ross Ice Shelf .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kelley Peak ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.