Kessler Peak
| Kessler Peak | ||
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| height | 2180 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kessler Peak is a striking, conical and 2180 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises 6 km west-southwest of Mount Rotolante on the eastern flank of the Lennox King Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Charles Leroy Kessler (1903-1976), sailor on board the Eleanor Bolling in the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , who also visited the Antarctic continent in 1962 and had visited in 1965.
Web links
- Kessler Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kessler Peak on geographic.org (English)