MacAyeal Peak

MacAyeal Peak
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height	1100 m
location	Australian Antarctic Territory
Mountains	Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 80 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E

The MacAyeal Peak is a mountain around 1100 m high in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the north-central section of the Nebraska Peaks in the Britannia Range, it rises 3 km west-northwest of the Brandwein-Nunatakker .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2000 after the US geophysicist Douglas R. MacAyeal (* 1954) from the University of Chicago , who from 1976 to 1977 in the Ross Ice Shelf Project of the United States Antarctic Research Program operates was.

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