Pallid Peak

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Pallid Peak
height 1500  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 84 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 178 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 84 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 178 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  W
Pallid Peak (Antarctica)
Pallid Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Pallid Peak (English for bleacher summit ) is a small and 1500  m high mountain peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 11 km southwest of McGinnis Peak on the western flank of the Kosco Glacier .

The descriptive name goes back to the American geologist Edmund Stump (* 1946), head of a team at Ohio State University , who worked on this mountain on December 3, 1970. The white crystalline marble from which the summit is made hardly contrasts with the snow-covered lower sections of the slope.

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