Price peak

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Price peak
height 1510  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 43 '0 "  S , 142 ° 24' 0"  W Coordinates: 85 ° 43 '0 "  S , 142 ° 24' 0"  W.
Price Peak (Antarctica)
Price peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Price Peak is a 1,510  m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 13 km north of the foothills of the California Plateau on the northern flank of the Leverett Glacier .

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 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Floyd W. Price, responsible for the personnel at the Navy squadron VX- 6, who participated in five Operation Deep Freeze campaigns between 1963 and 1967 .

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