Worcester Summit
| Worcester Summit | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dufek Massif , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 36 ′ 4 ″ S , 52 ° 19 ′ 3 ″ W | |
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The Worcester Summit is a 2,030 m high mountain peaks in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Dufek massif of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises at the eastern end of the Jaeger Table .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1979 after Robin D. Worcester, who together with David W. Bennett formed the first satellite survey team of the United States Geological Survey at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1973 .
Web links
- Worcester Summit in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Worcester Summit on geographic.org (English)