Rinehart Peak

Rinehart Peak
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height	1710 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	70 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 70 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ O
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Rinehart Peak is a 1710 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Usarp Mountains rises up from a ridge on the east-central slope of the Pomerantz Tafelland .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the geophysicist Floyd J. Rinehart, who was responsible for the United States Antarctic Program worked on the McMurdo station between 1967 and 1968 .

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