Luther Peak

Luther Peak
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height	820 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 22 '0 " S , 169 ° 50' 0" E Coordinates: 72 ° 22 '0 " S , 169 ° 50' 0" E

The Luther Peak is a 820 m high mountain on the Borchgrevink Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains it rises 18 km southeast of Mount Peacock above Edisto Inlet .

Scientists from the first US Operation Deep Freeze mapped it in March 1956 using radar measurements . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1956 after Roger William Luther (1911-2006), captain of the icebreaker USCGC Edisto , with whose help the radar measurements were carried out.

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