McNally Peak
| McNally Peak | ||
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| height | 2570 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The McNally Peak is a 2,570 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 5.5 km west of Mount Farley near the southeast side of the Holdsworth Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after Commander Joseph J. McNally of the United States Navy , supply officer at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1959 and a member of the command staff of the US Navy support units in Antarctica for Operation Deep Freeze in 1967 .
Web links
- McNally Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McNally Peak on geographic.org (English)