Mitchell Peak
| Mitchell Peak | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 147 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Mitchell Peak is a secluded mountain top at the Saunders Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . It rises about 13 miles west of Birchall Peaks in the south of the Guest Peninsula .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him during an overflight on December 5, 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930). The mountain is named after Hugh Chester Mitchell (* 1877), a mathematician of the National Geodetic Survey and a member of the National Geographic Society committee , which confirmed Byrd's overflights from the North (1926) and South Pole (1929).
Web links
- Mitchell Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mitchell Peak on geographic.org (English)