Linwood Peak

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Linwood Peak
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height 668  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Ford Ranges
Coordinates 77 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 147 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 147 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  W
Linwood Peak (Antarctica)
Linwood Peak
Topographic map of Hershey Ridge in the Ford Ranges with Linwood Peak (below center)

Topographic map of Hershey Ridge in the Ford Ranges with Linwood Peak (below center)

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The Linwood Peak is a 668  m high and isolated mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . On the Hershey Ridge in the Ford Ranges , it looms 22 km west of Mount Ronne .

Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Linwood Thomas Miller (1893-1963), sailmaker for the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .

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