Loewenstein Peak
| Loewenstein Peak | ||
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| height | 1539 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ 20 ″ S , 161 ° 8 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Loewenstein Peak is a 1539 m high and ice-free mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . Rising 1.2 km northeast of Vashka Crag , it is the westernmost of a series of mountains that mark the watershed in the eastern Cruzen Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after Robert F. Loewenstein of the Yerkes Observatory , who was involved in 13 astrophysical campaigns of the United States Antarctic Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station between 1991 and 2004 .
Web links
- Loewenstein Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Loewenstein Peak on geographic.org (English)