Parker Mesa
| Parker Mesa | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Clare Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Parker Mesa is a distinctive and snowy Table Mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the southern Clare Range, it rises 6 km southeast of Skew Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the American biologist Bruce C. Parker, who carried out studies on limnology in the United States Antarctic Research Program on the Antarctic Peninsula (1969-1970) and in Victoria Land (1973-1974 and 1974) –1975).
Web links
- Parker Mesa in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Parker Mesa on geographic.org