Purvis Peak
| Purvis Peak | ||
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| height | 2250 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Purvis Peak is a 2,250 m high mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains it rises 3 km northeast of Mount Northampton above and south of the confluence of the Tucker Glacier in the Tucker Inlet on the Borchgrevink coast .
Participants in a campaign from 1957 to 1958 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition and the United States Geological Survey between 1960 and 1962 carried out surveys. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1973 after Lieutenant Ronald Scott Purvis (1928–2018) of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron , pilot of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter at Ellsworth Station (1956–1957) and an R5D Skymaster at McMurdo Station (1957-1958).
Web links
- Purvis peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Purvis Peak on geographic.org (English)