Nickell Peak
| Nickell Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Nickell Peak is an ice-free mountaintop in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 1.6 km southeast of Sponsors Peak on the west side of the Upper Victoria Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after Gregory William Nickell (1948-1974) of the National Science Foundation , manager of the Eklund Biological Center and the Thiel Earth Sciences Laboratory at McMurdo Station , on May 15, 1974 at a truck -Accident between McMurdo Station and Scott Base was killed.
Web links
- Nickell Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nickell Peak on geographic.org (English)