Sladen Summit

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Sladen Summit
height 3395  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E
Sladen Summit (Antarctica)
Sladen Summit

The Sladen Summit is a striking and 3395  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises at the intersection of Johns Hopkins Ridge and Rampart Ridge .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after the US-British ornithologist William Joseph Lambart Sladen (1920-2017), long-time senior scientist of the United States Antarctic Research Program to study penguin populations at Cape Crozier .

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