Stockton Peak
| Stockton Peak | ||
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| height | 1460 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 7 '43 " S , 62 ° 7' 45" W | |
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The Stockton Peak is a 1460 m high, sharp-edged and mainly ice-covered mountain peak in the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the southern flank of the upper section of the Murrish Glacier about 10 km west-northwest of Cat Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the biologist William L. Stockton of the University of California, Davis , who was a participant in the United States Antarctic Research Program in 1972 at Palmer Station .
Web links
- Stockton Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stockton Peak on geographic.org (English)