Rester Peak

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Rester Peak
height 3638  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range
Coordinates 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E
Rester Peak (Antarctica)
Rester Peak

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 .

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