Schwartz Peak
| Schwartz Peak | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 9 '26 " S , 76 ° 20' 25" W | |
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The Schwartz Peak is a 1000 m high and rocky mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 1.5 km south of the Foltz-Nunatak and 25 km east-southeast of the FitzGerald Bluffs . The mountain is one of a series of smaller peaks southeast of the Bluffs and the dominant elevation in the center of that series.
The mountain is one of those objects that the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered in November 1935 and photographed from the air. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the topography engineer Bruce L. Schwartz, who worked for the USGS in 1967 until 1968 worked on the Byrd station .
Web links
- Schwartz Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schwartz Peak on geographic.org (English)