Linder Peak

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Linder Peak
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Enterprise Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 79 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 83 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 79 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 83 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W
Linder Peak (Antarctica)
Linder Peak
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Linder Peak is a peak in the Ellsworth Mountains of West Antarctica Ellsworthland . In the Enterprise Hills of the Heritage Range, it rises immediately south of Mount Dolence . Northeast of the summit is Connell Canyon .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the geophysicist Harold W. Linder, who participated in the Ross Ice Shelf Expedition in Participated under the United States Antarctic Program between 1961 and 1962.

Individual evidence

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