Pryor Peak

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Pryor Peak
height 600  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains Tyndall Mountains
Coordinates 67 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  S , 67 ° 20 ′ 51 ″  W Coordinates: 67 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  S , 67 ° 20 ′ 51 ″  W
Pryor Peak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Pryor Peak

The Pryor Peak is an approximately 600  m high mountain on the Loubet coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arrowsmith Peninsula, it looms on the west side of Giants Cirque in the Tyndall Mountains .

Geologists from the British Antarctic Survey visited him between 1980 and 1981. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) named him in 1984 after Commander John Stoneman Nelson Pryor (1919–2011) of the Royal Navy , who served the UK from 1968 to 1982 -APC listened to.

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