Neuburg Peak
| Neuburg Peak | ||
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| height | 1840 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dufek Massif , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 37 ′ 59 ″ S , 52 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Neuburg Peak is a rugged and rocky mountain of 1,840 m height in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It rises 4 km east of Walker Peak in the southwest Dufek massif of the Pensacola Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the American glaciologist Hugo Alfred Carl Neuburg (1920-2010), who to who had belonged to the crew stationed at Ellsworth Station who first explored the Dufek massif in December 1957.
Web links
- Neuburg Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Neuburg Peak on geographic.org (English)