Shafer Peak

Shafer Peak
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height	3600 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Deep Freeze Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	74 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 74 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E

The Shafer Peak is a distinctive, 3600 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Deep Freeze Range it rises about 5 km south of Mount Hewson .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1968 after Lieutenant Commander Willard George Shafer (* 1931) of the United States Navy , in the winter of 1965 officer on duty for the nuclear reactor at McMurdo Station as part of the Army Nuclear Power Program .

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