Turtle Peak
| Turtle Peak | ||
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 Topographic map of Mount Murphy with Turtle Peak (left) |
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| height | 600 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 111 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Turtle Peak is a 600 m high distinctive and almost non-iced rocky mountain peak on the Walgreen coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises south of the Hedin Nunatak in the immediate vicinity to a ridge that extends from Mount Murphy in a south-westerly direction.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the aurora researcher John P. Turtle, who worked at Byrd Station in 1962 was active.
Web links
- Turtle peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turtle Peak on geographic.org (English)