Mendenhall Peak
| Mendenhall Peak | ||
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| height | 2130 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 87 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mendenhall Peak is a 2,130 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises about 1 km west of Mount Wrather in the eastern section of the Thiel Mountains .
The cartographer Peter Frank Bermel and the geologist Arthur B. Ford , who jointly led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1961 in the Thiel Mountains, named him after the American geologist Walter Curran Mendenhall (1871-1957), fifth Director of the Survey from 1931 to 1943.
Web links
- Mendenhall Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mendenhall Peak on geographic.org (English)