Simmonds Peak

Simmonds Peak
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height	1940 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ W

The Simmonds peak is 1,940 m high and prominent mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises 6 km south of Mount Dort on the eastern flank of the Amundsen Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the biologist Willard I. Simmonds, who in the Antarctic winter of 1964 on the McMurdo station was operating.

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