Witalis Peak
| Witalis Peak | ||
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| height | 760 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Witalis Peak is a 760 m high and rocky mountain on the Amundsen coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains in the northeastern part of the Collins Ridge, it rises at the confluence of the Bowman and Amundsen glaciers before both confluence with the Ross Ice Shelf .
Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the meteorologist Ronald E. Witalis (* 1938), who was part of the 1961 winter team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Witalis Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Witalis Peak on geographic.org (English)