Shupe Peak
| Shupe Peak | ||
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| height | 2910 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Shupe Peak is a distinctive and 2910 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 6 km east-southeast of The Spire in the Rampart Ridge of the Royal Society Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after Gordon H. Shupe, a surveyor for the United States Geological Survey , who conducted three summer campaigns in Antarctica for geodetic surveys at McMurdo Station , Byrd Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and the Pine Island Bay area .
Web links
- Shupe Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shupe Peak on geographic.org (English)