Waugh Peak

Waugh Peak (86°4′S 160°36′W / 86.067°S 160.600°W / -86.067; -160.600Coordinates: 86°4′S 160°36′W / 86.067°S 160.600°W / -86.067; -160.600) is a rock peak, 2,430 m, standing just southeast of Breyer Mesa at the west side of Amundsen Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Douglas Waugh, Chief Cartographer with the Geological Society of America from 1963, who has contributed much to the Society's Antarctic mapping program.

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