Moore Pinnacle
| Moore Pinnacle | ||
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| height | 2650 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Moore Pinnacle is a 2650 m high rock needle in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range it rises in the southern part of the massif of Mount Olympus .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 2001 after Captain Robert Rouse Moore (1904-1965), ship's captain of the USS Mount Olympus , flagship of Operation Highjump (1946-1947).
Web links
- Moore Pinnacle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moore Pinnacle on geographic.org (English)