Suggs Peak
| Suggs Peak | ||
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| height | 842 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kohler Range | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 113 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Suggs Peak is an 842 m high and icy mountain with a small peak in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Kohler Range it rises 10 km south-southwest of Mount Wilbanks .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the geologist James DeShae Suggs (1935-2016), who was part of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1966 to 1967 in Marie Byrd Land.
Web links
- Suggs peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Suggs Peak on geographic.org (English)