Meads Peak

Meads Peak
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height	1165 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 7 ′ 59 ″ W Coordinates: 83 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 7 ′ 59 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Meads Peak is a 1,165 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 800 m from the northwest end of the Hudson Ridge .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Edward C. Meads, a construction truck driver at Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1958.

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