Tate Peak

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Tate Peak
height 1885  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Van Allen Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
Tate Peak (Antarctica)
Tate Peak

The Tate peak is 1,885  m high and pointed mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Van Allen Range it rises 3 km east of Escalade Peak on the south side of the Skelton Firnfield .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after Lieutenant T. N. Tate of the United States Navy , who was responsible for public relations at McMurdo Station in 1963 .

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