Manahan Peak
| Manahan Peak | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Manahan peak is 2,000 m high and prominent mountain peaks on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 1.5 km east of Giggenbach Ridge and 4.2 km northwest of the summit of Mount Erebus in the northeast of the island.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after the biologist Donal Thomas Manahan (* 1953), who had been involved in eight campaigns in Antarctica since 1983 and led the research project of the United States Antarctic Program on the development of marine larvae .
Web links
- Manahan peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Manahan Peak on geographic.org (English)