Matthews Peak
| Matthews Peak | ||
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| height | 1100 m | |
| location | Pourquoi-Pas Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Perplex Ridge | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 40 ′ 33 ″ S , 67 ° 44 ′ 46 ″ W | |
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The Matthews Peak is a distinctive and 1100 m high mountain on the Pourquoi Pas Island in Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises northwest of Statham Peak in the southwest part of Perplex Ridge .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after 1979 after the geologist David William Matthews (* 1939) from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who worked at the BAS station on Stonington Island from 1965 to 1967 and also in the area of this Bergs had worked.
Web links
- Matthews peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Matthews Peak on geographic.org (English)