Tasch Peak
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 Topographic map of the Crary Mountains with Tasch Peak (scale 1: 250,000) |
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| height | 2709 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Crary Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 118 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Tasch Peak is 2709 m high and rocky mountain peak in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Crary Mountains it looms in the southeastern part of Mount Rees .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1975 after the geologist and paleontologist Paul Tasch (1910-2001), who was part of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1966 to 1967 in the Sentinel Range and Ohio Range and from 1969 to 1970 at Coalsack Bluff .
Web links
- Tasch Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
- Tasch Peak on geographic.org (English).