Vogt Peak
| Vogt Peak | ||
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| height | 2180 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Geologists Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Vogt Peak is a 2,180 m high mountain peaks in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It towers over the eastern part of the McKay Cliffs in the Geologists Range .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names him named in 1966 by Peter Richard Vogt (born 1939), a geologist of the United States Antarctic Program on the McMurdo station from 1962 to 1963.
Web links
- Vogt Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vogt Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1652 (English).