Rogers Peak (Antarctica)

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Rogers Peak
height 1520  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 79 ° 20 '35 "  S , 84 ° 14' 40"  W Coordinates: 79 ° 20 '35 "  S , 84 ° 14' 40"  W
Rogers Peak (Antarctica) (Antarctica)
Rogers Peak (Antarctica)

The Rogers Peak is a 1520  m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Heritage Range, it rises on the eastern flank of the mouth of the Rennell Glacier in the Splettstoesser Glacier .

A team of geologists from the University of Minnesota , who worked here between 1963 and 1964, made the name. It is named after the geologist M. Alan Rogers, who explored the Hart Hills and Whitmore Mountains during this time .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Rogers Peak ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved June 3, 2010.