McLean Peak

McLean Peak
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height	2290 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Maud Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W.
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The McLean Peak is a 2,290 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises from a ridge that extends from the northwest end of the Stanford Plateau along the Watson Escarpment .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Lieutenant William E. McLean, medic and head of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctic winter 1964.

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