Medina peaks

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Medina peaks
location Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency )
part of Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains
Medina Peaks (Antarctica)
Medina peaks
Coordinates 85 ° 36 ′  S , 155 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 85 ° 36 ′  S , 155 ° 54 ′  W
Map from 1966, in the middle of the lower half the Medina Peaks and Hays Mountains

Map from 1966, in the middle of the lower half the Medina Peaks and Hays Mountains

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The Medina Peaks are rugged, mainly ice-free mountain peaks on the Amundsen coast in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . They rise from a mountain range about 25 km long , which extends along the eastern flank of the Goodale Glacier to the north to the southern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .

Some of these mountains were discovered and roughly mapped during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Guillermo Medina, Technical Director of the United States Hydrographic Office (1954-1960) and the Naval Oceanographic Office (1960-1964).

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