Pritchard Peak
| Pritchard Peak | ||
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| height | 1800 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Pritchard Peak is about 1,800 meters high mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises 5 km southeast of Saburro Peak in the Ravens Mountains of the Britannia Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2001 after Marion Graham Pritchard Jr. (* 1945), first vice-in command and later in command of the 109th Airlift Wing when the Lockheed C-130 was transferred from the United States Navy to the Air National Guard .
Web links
- Pritchard Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pritchard Peak on geographic.org (English)