Richardson Peak

Richardson Peak
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height	600 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Tyndall Mountains
Coordinates	67 ° 19 ′ 29 ″ S , 67 ° 19 ′ 42 ″ W Coordinates: 67 ° 19 ′ 29 ″ S , 67 ° 19 ′ 42 ″ W

The Richardson 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 rises on the eastern flank of the Vallot Glacier 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 Hilda Richardson, secretary of the British Glaciological Society from 1953 to 1962 and, from 1962, general secretary of the successor organization, the International Glaciological Society .

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