Voit Peak
| Voit Peak | ||
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| height | 750 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 39 ′ 29 " S , 65 ° 31 ′ 47" W | |
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The Voit Peak is an approximately 750 m high mountain on the Loubet coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It looms between the Drummond and Hopkins glaciers .
Aerial photographs were taken between 1956 and 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1960 after the German physiologist Carl von Voit (1831-1908), who in 1881 wrote a standard work on the human calorie requirement with physiology of general metabolism and nutrition .
Web links
- Voit Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Voit Peak on geographic.org (English)