Nelson Peak

Nelson Peak
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height	1605 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 39 ′ 58 ″ S , 55 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 83 ° 39 ′ 58 ″ S , 55 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W

The Nelson Peak is a 1,605 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It rises near the Washington Escarpment between the Drury Ridge and Brown Ridge ridges in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the American geologist Willis H. Nelson (1920-2010), who between 1963 and 1964 served as a member of a survey team in the Neptune Range.

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