Pallid Peak
Pallid Peak | ||
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height | 1500 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 84 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 178 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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.
Web links
- Pallid Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pallid Peak on geographic.org (English)