Ryan Peak
| Ryan Peak | ||
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| height | 810 m | |
| location | Horseshoe Island , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 51 '46 " S , 67 ° 11' 17" W | |
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The Ryan Peak is a 810 m high mountain on Horseshoe Iceland before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 1.5 km east of Penitent Peak .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out surveys between 1955 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 at the suggestion of the British geographer Derek Searle . It is named after Francis Bernard Ryan (* 1934), a meteorologist for FIDS on Horseshoe Island in 1956, who suffered a complicated leg fracture on an ice slope on this mountain in the spring of that year .
Web links
- Ryan Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ryan Peak on geographic.org (English)