Moore Peak
| Moore Peak | ||
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| height | 2500 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Moore Peak is an approximately 2500 m high mountain peaks on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 2.6 km west-southwest of the main summit of Mount Terror on its western slope and 1.5 km south of Mount Sutherland .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle after James A. Moore, a member of the team of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from Socorro , New Mexico , who worked in two Antarctic between 1983 and 1986 Summer campaigns on Mount Erebus .
Web links
- Moore Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moore Peak on geographic.org (English)