McCalman Peak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

McCalman Peak (63°37′S 57°47′W / 63.617°S 57.783°W / -63.617; -57.783Coordinates: 63°37′S 57°47′W / 63.617°S 57.783°W / -63.617; -57.783) is the 550-metre (1,800 ft) summit of an east–west trending ridge 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Crystal Hill, 3.97 km east-northeast of Gornik Knoll, 6.9 km south-southeast of Kumata Hill and 4.55 km west-southwest of Zaldapa Ridge on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Donald McCalman, a surveyor with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at Hope Bay in 1958–59.[1]

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

  1. ↑ "McCalman Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-09-02.

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