Mayewski Peak
| Mayewski Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mayewski Peak is a mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it rises in the middle of a ridge on the north side of the Baldwin Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after Paul Alexander Mayewski (* 1946), who carried out geological work in the area of McMurdo Station (1968–1969) and the McGregor Glacier (1968–1971) as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program. , the Willett Range and the Convoy Range (1971–1972) and the Rennick Glacier (1974–1975).
Web links
- Mayewski Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mayewski Peak on geographic.org (English)