Mayo Peak

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Mayo Peak
Topographic map with Mayo Peak (below center)

Topographic map with Mayo Peak (below center)

height 300  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Jones Bluffs
Coordinates 74 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 74 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  W
Mayo Peak (Antarctica)
Mayo Peak

The Mayo Peak is a 300  m high mountain with a flattened summit in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . On the Bear Peninsula on the Walgreen Coast , it forms the southern end of the Jones Bluffs .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1977 after Elbert A. Mayo Jr. of the US Navy, flight engineer of an LC 130 Hercules in five campaigns of Operation Deep Freeze .

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