Sternberg Peak
| Sternberg Peak | ||
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| height | 1300 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sternberg Peak is a 1300 m high mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises 4.3 km northeast of Rand Peak in the Nebraska Peaks of the Britannia Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2000 after the US geophysicist Ben Kollock Sternberg (* 1947), who from 1973 to 1974 at the ice hole J-9 of the Ross Ice Shelf -project in the United States Antarctic Research Program at 82 ° 22 ' S , 168 ° 40' O was involved.
Web links
- Sternberg peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sternberg Peak on geographic.org (English)