Maagoe Peak
| Maagoe Peak | ||
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| height | 1850 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Maagoe Peak is a 1,850 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Land . In the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises at the northern end of the Gifford Peaks .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of 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 ionospheric researcher Steffen Maagoe (1936–1975), who in 1964 on the US American Eights Station was operating.
Web links
- Maagoe Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maagoe Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 961 (English).