Thoreson Peak
| Thoreson Peak | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Thoreson Peak is a 1,200 m high mountain on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is one of the highest peaks in the rocky cliffs on the south side of New Harbor and rises 5.1 km west-southwest of Stewart Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Ronald D. Thoreson, manager of the biological laboratory at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1970.
Web links
- Thoreson peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thoreson Peak on geographic.org (English)