Mount Perez
Mount Perez | ||
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Topographic map of the area around the Suvorov Glacier with Mount Perez (bottom center) |
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height | 1610 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Wilson Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 70 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
The Mount Perez is a 1610 m high mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wilson Hills it rises 10 km southwest of the Hornblende Bluffs on the south side of the upper section of the Suworow Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after Manuel J. Perez, an aerial photographer for the United States Navy and a member of the United States Geological Survey team to set up geodetic control points to survey the area between Cape Adare and the Wilson Hills between 1962 and 1963.
Web links
- Mount Perez in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Perez on geographic.org (English)