Stanwix Peak

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Stanwix Peak
Topographic map of the northern part of the Bowers Mountains (left half of the picture) with Stanwix Peak

Topographic map of the northern part of the Bowers Mountains (left half of the picture) with Stanwix Peak

height 2242  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 70 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 70 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E
Stanwix Peak (Antarctica)
Stanwix Peak

The Stanwix peak is 2,242  m high and prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Bowers Mountains it towers over the southern flank of the head end of the Astapenko Glacier .

The mountain served as a benchmark for survey work carried out in 1962 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . Participants on this research trip named him after their helicopter pilot John Stanwix.

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