Rester Peak
Rester Peak | ||
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height | 3638 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Royal Society Range | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Rester Peak is a 3638 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises 2 km northeast of Mount Rucker .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after the American astrophysicist A. Carl Rester of the University of Florida , who was responsible for the instrumentation of a balloon for astrophysical investigations that ascended in Antarctica in January 1988 .
Web links
- Rester peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rester Peak on geographic.org (English)