Pearce Dome
| Pearce Dome | ||
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| height | 789 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 19 ′ 58 ″ S , 68 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ W | |
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The Pearce Dome is a dome-shaped and 789 m high mountain on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 0.8 km west-northwest of Khufu Peak and 1 km east of Blodwen Peak . Its northern flank is free of ice and snow.
A report by the British Antarctic Survey in 1962, he has been The Snow Dome ( English for The Snow Dome named). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee changed its name on April 23, 1998. It is named after Clifford John Pearce (* 1935), meteorologist for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who spent the winter at the station on Fossil Bluff in 1961.
Web links
- Pearce Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pearce Dome on geographic.org (English)