Riley Peak
| Riley Peak | ||
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| height | 1280 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sweeney Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 11 ′ 9 ″ S , 69 ° 14 ′ 48 ″ W | |
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The Riley Peak is a 1280 m high mountain in the east of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Sweeney Mountains it rises at the southern end of a mountain ridge that extends from Mount Jenkins over a length of 5 km in a south-southwest direction.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2009 after the geologist Teal Richard Riley (* 1970) from the British Antarctic Survey , who had worked on the theory of a supercontinental cycle .
Web links
- Riley Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)