Stroup Peak

Stroup Peak
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height	1100 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 6 ′ 15 ″ S , 162 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 6 ′ 15 ″ S , 162 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E

The Stroup Peak is a 1,100 m high mountain on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range, it rises above the Wilson Piedmont Glacier on the foothills of a ridge that extends from Mount Curtiss in an easterly direction . Mount Curtiss is 2.7 miles away.

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2008 after the construction electrician William E. Stroup of the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy , who was involved in the construction of the Little America V station in preparation for the International Geophysical Year between 1955 and 1957 .

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