McCollum Peak
| McCollum Peak | ||
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| height | 735 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 32 '46 " S , 64 ° 1' 32" W | |
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The McCollum Peak is a 735 m high mountain at the Graham Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises south of Beascochea Bay and 3 km southeast of Mount Waugh on the Barison Peninsula .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the American biochemist Elmer McCollum (1879-1967), who in 1915 was the first to isolate vitamins A and B.
Web links
- McCollum Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCollum Peak on geographic.org (English)