Morris Peak

Morris Peak
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height	950 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Wiener Peaks , Ford Ranges
Coordinates	76 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 76 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W

The Morriss Peak is a 950 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Ford Ranges it looms at the southwest end of the Vienna Peaks .

Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. Another mapping was carried out by the United States Geological Survey based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1959 to 1965. At the suggestion of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , the mountain was named after Percy George Brockhurst Morriss (1885-1944) named, manager of the Hotel Clark in Los Angeles , which had provided office space for Byrd's first (1928–1930) and second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935).

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