Storey Peak
Storey Peak | ||
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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 | |
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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.
Web links
- Storey Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)