Péwé Peak
| Péwé Peak | ||
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| height | 860 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The PeWe peak is a 860 m high peaks of granite , which from a storage gallery from Dolerit is overlaid. It rises immediately south of Joyce Glacier in the Denton Hills of the East Antarctic Victoria Land and, apart from its south side, is surrounded by glacial ice.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1961 after the American glaciologist Troy L. Péwé (1918–1999) from Arizona State University , who explored this summit and the surrounding region of Victoria Land during Operation Deep Freeze (1957–1958) would have.
Web links
- Péwé Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Péwé Peak on geographic.org (English)