Mount Peddie
| Mount Peddie | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Peddie is a mountain in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . At the northern end of the Ford Ranges, it rises five miles north of Webster Bluff .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Norman W. Peddie, geomagnetic and seismologist at Byrd Station in Year 1964.
Web links
- Mount Peddie in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Peddie on geographic.org (English)