Marks Summit
| Marks Summit | ||
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| height | 801 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dufek Massif , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 27 '44 " S , 50 ° 52' 31" W | |
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The Marks Summit is a 801 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Dufek massif of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises halfway along the Wujek Ridge .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2006 after the pilot Gregory Paul Marks (1972-2004), who had made the air support of the British Antarctic Survey more efficient from 2002 by introducing new measures .
Web links
- Marks Summit in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)