Swarm Peak
| Swarm Peak | ||
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| height | 610 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 146 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Swarm Peak is a 610 m high Nunatak in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Ford Ranges it rises as the easternmost point of the Birchall Peaks .
Aerial photographs and maps of the mountain were made during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) and the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1970 after Howard Myron Swarm (1916–1987), ionospheric physicist of the United States Antarctic Research Program at Byrd Station from 1966 to 1967.
Web links
- Swarm peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swarm Peak on geographic.org (English)