Neshyba Peak
| Neshyba Peak | ||
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| height | 2105 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Dyer Plateau | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 13 '47 " S , 62 ° 44' 3" W | |
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The Neshyba Peak is a small, pointed, mainly icy and 2105 m high mountain peak in the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the northern part of a branching mountain ridge 26 km east-northeast of Mount Jackson .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after the oceanographer Stephen Neshyba, who between 1972 and 1973 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program carried out studies of laminar currents in benthos around the Antarctic Peninsula.
Web links
- Neshyba Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Neshyba Peak on geographic.org (English)