Sponholz Peak

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Sponholz Peak
height 1730  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Liberty Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 83 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 83 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W
Sponholz Peak (Antarctica)
Sponholz Peak
Map of the region

Map of the region

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The Sponholz Peak is a 1730  m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Heritage Range, it rises 4 km south of Moulder Peak in the Liberty Hills on the west side of the Horseshoe Valley .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Martin P. Sponholz, a meteorologist from the United States Antarctic Program , who worked on the US plateau station during the Antarctic winter of 1966 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Sponholz Peak ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.