McWhinnie Peak
| McWhinnie Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The McWhinnie Peak is a mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it rises 3 km northeast of Mount Harker .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 by the American biologist Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980), the 1962-1972 at several Antarctic cruises the icebreaker USNS Eltanin had participated and in the Antarctic winter 1974 on the McMurdo station worked .
Web links
- McWhinnie peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McWhinnie Peak on geographic.org (English)