Patterson Peak

Patterson Peak
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height	1610 m
location	Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency )
Mountains	Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Patterson Peak is a 1,610 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains , 6 km northwest of Anderson Ridge looms at the southern end of the Medina Peaks .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the American geochemist Clair Cameron Patterson (1922-1995), who of 1965 to 1966 worked as a glaciologist on the Byrd station .

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