Storey Peak

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Storey Peak
height 893  m
location Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 83 ° 40 '23 "  S , 58 ° 38' 36"  W Coordinates: 83 ° 40 '23 "  S , 58 ° 38' 36"  W
Storey Peak (Antarctica)
Storey Peak

The Storey Peak is a 893  m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it looms south of the Pillow Knob .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2012 after the Irish geologist Bryan Cecil Storey (* 1951), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey in the Pensacola Mountains in the 1980s and after whom the Storey Glacier is also named.

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