McCarroll Peak
| McCarroll Peak | ||
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| height | 1105 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 2 '38 " S , 62 ° 47' 25" W | |
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The McCarroll Peak is a 1,105 m high and rocky mountain at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the south side of the Richthofen Pass southwest of the Scar Inlet .
Presumably he was spotted for the first time during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) under Otto Nordenskjöld . The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins mistakenly identified it as the Cape on his overflight on December 20, 1928 and named it after Henry George McCarroll (1901–1950), a businessman and aviation pioneer from Detroit . Wilkins' naming was retained after the true nature of the geographic object was revealed.
Web links
- McCarroll Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCarroll Peak on geographic.org (English)