Kennedy Peak
| Kennedy Peak | ||
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| height | 1162 m | |
| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 99 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kennedy Peak is a 1,162 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Mary Land . Its small peak breaks through the Antarctic Ice Sheet on the western flank of the Denman Glacier , 3 km south of Mount Barr Smith .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Mawson named it after the Australian physicist Alexander Lorimer Kennedy (1889–1972), who was involved in the research trip and in the discovery. The US cartographer Gardner "Gard" Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it using aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Kennedy Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kennedy Peak on geographic.org (English)