Marze Peak
| Marze Peak | ||
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 Map of the Sentinel Range with Marze Peak (bottom center) |
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 84 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Marze Peak is a rocky mountain with two peaks in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Land . It rises at the southern end of a ridge between the Wessbecher Glacier and the Hudman Glacier at the southern end of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1957 and 1959. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1961 after Marion Oscar Marze (1924–1956), aircraft engineer in the US Navy Was killed in October 1956 in the crash of a Lockheed P2V Neptune at McMurdo Sound .
Web links
- Marze Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marze Peak on geographic.org (English)