Murphy Peak

Murphy Peak
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height	1280 m
location	Viktorialand , Antarctica
Mountains	Keble Hills , Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E

The Murphy Peak is a striking, partly icy and 1280 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Keble Hills on the Scott Coast, it rises 4.3 km southwest of Haggerty Hill on the southern flank of the Salmon Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after Robert L. Murphy of the engineering company Holmes & Narver in Orange , California , which was subcontracted from 1976 to 1980 and from 1990 to 1992 for the United States Antarctic Program to expand and modernize the infrastructure of the McMurdo- Station was active.

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