Waitt peaks
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 29 ′ S , 62 ° 33 ′ W | |
The Waitt Peaks are a group of pointed and mostly snow-capped mountains in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise 6 km northwest of the Schirmacher massif at the southwest end of a large, horseshoe-shaped mountain ridge .
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after the geologist Richard B. Waitt (* 1943), who worked for the USGS on the Lassiter coast between 1972 and 1973 .
Web links
- Waitt peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Waitt Peaks on geographic.org (English)