Whiting Peak
| Whiting Peak | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 1300 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
|
||
The Whiting Peak is a turn 1300 m high mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises 9 km east of the northern part of Gaylord Ridge in the Nebraska Peaks of the Britannia Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2000 after the US geophysicist Larry R. Whiting, the 1973-1974 and 1974-1975 on the ice drilling in the Ross Ice Shelf Project of the United States Antarctic Research Program was involved .
Web links
- Whiting Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whiting Peak on geographic.org (English)