McKinnis Peak
| McKinnis Peak | ||
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| height | 510 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wilson Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The McKinnis Peak is a 510 m high mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wilson Hills it rises 3 km southeast of the Holladay Nunatakker on a peninsula which is bordered by the Tomilin and Noll glaciers in the west and by the Gillett Ice Shelf in the east.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Joe D. McKinnis, aircraft electrical engineer and crew member of an LC-130F on Operation Deep Freeze in 1969.
Web links
- McKinnis Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKinnis Peak on geographic.org (English)