Stoner Peak
| Stoner Peak | ||
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| height | 1300 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Stoner Peak is a striking and 1,300 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the eastern end of a mountain ridge between Covert Glacier and Spring Glacier and forms the highest point of the northeast Royal Society Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the US cartographer James E. Stoner from the United States Geological Survey , who was involved in geodetic surveys of the Antarctic dry valleys between 1986 and 1987 and as a team leader from 1989 to 1990 .
Web links
- Stoner Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stoner Peak on geographic.org (English)