McLaughlin Peak
| McLaughlin Peak | ||
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| height | 1650 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Latady Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 35 ′ 5 ″ S , 64 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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The McLaughlin Peak is a turn 1650 m high mountain in Palmer land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 15 km east-southeast of Mount Aaron in the northern part of the Latady Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1961 to 1967. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Robert Harold McLaughlin (1934-2017), machinist on the Amundsen-Scott- South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1964.
Web links
- McLaughlin Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McLaughlin Peak on geographic.org (English)