Turk Peak
| Turk Peak | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Turk Peak is a large, 2000 m high and hump-shaped mountain peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it rises as the middle of three peaks in a group of summits around 10 km north of Mount Zinkovich .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert Turk, commander of the 61st Troop Transport Squadron, which coordinated the flights of a Lockheed C-130 to the Antarctic continent in January 1960 .
Web links
- Turk peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turk Peak on geographic.org (English)