Stride Peak
| Stride Peak | ||
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| height | 675 m | |
| location | Pourquoi-Pas Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 41 '25 " S , 67 ° 35' 33" W | |
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The Stride Peak is a 675 m high mountain on the Pourquoi Pas Island , off the west coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises at the head of Dalgliesh Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1980 after Geoffrey Alfred Stride (1927-1958), who worked as a diesel generator mechanic for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on Horseshoe Island , before going on a dog sled excursion between Horseshoe Island and on May 27, 1958 the Dion Islands together with his companions David Statham (1938-1958) and Stanley Edward Black (1933-1958) broke through an ice sheet that was too thin and was killed.
Web links
- Stride peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stride Peak on geographic.org (English)