Peters Butte
| Peters Butte | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 119 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Peters Butte is a steep-sided witness mountain with a flattened summit in Marie-Byrd-Land in western Antarctica . In the Long Hills of the Horlick Mountains, it rises on the south side of the McCarthy Valley .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountain based on its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1958 and 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Norman L. Peters, a meteorologist at Byrd Station in 1958.
Web links
- Peters Butte in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peters Butte on geographic.org (English)