Statham Peak
| Statham Peak | ||
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| height | 1170 m | |
| location | Pourquoi-Pas Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Perplex Ridge | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 41 ′ 10 ″ S , 67 ° 43 ′ 14 ″ W | |
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The Statham Peak is a distinctive and 1170 m high mountain on the Pourquoi Pas Island in Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises at the southwest end of Perplex Ridge .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after 1979 after meteorologists David Statham (1938-1958) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) of the stations of the FIDS on Signy Iceland (1957-1958) and Horseshoe Iceland worked before he broke through too thin an ice sheet on May 27, 1958 on a dog sled excursion between Horseshoe Island and the Dion Islands together with his companions Geoffrey Alfred Stride (1927-1958) and Stanley Edward Black (1933-1958) Life came.
Web links
- Statham Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Statham Peak on geographic.org (English)