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Andrews Peak
The Destination Nunataks () are a group of peaks and nunataks, long and wide, rising to at Pyramid Peak and including Sphinx Peak, Andrews Peak, Mummy Ridge, and unnamed nunataks to the northwest, located in northeast Evans Névé, northwest of the Barker Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming This group was visited in 1970–71 by a Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) geological party led by M.G. Laird. The name "Destination Rocks" was originally used for the feature because these nunataks were near the northern limits of Laird's expedition. The name Destination Nunataks, as approved by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) and the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1985, applies to the entire group described rather than to just two nunataks at the southeast end as indicated on some maps. Location The Destination Nunataks lie at the end of a ridge extended southeast from the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrews Peak (Tuolumne County, California)
Andrews Peak is a summit in Tuolumne County, California, in the United States. With an elevation of , Andrews Peak is the 880th highest summit in the state of California. Andrews Peak was named for Professor George Leonard Andrews of West Point The United States Military Academy (USMA), commonly known as West Point, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York that educates cadets for service as Officer_(armed_forces)#United_States, comm .... References Mountains of Tuolumne County, California Mountains of Northern California {{TuolumneCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrews Peaks
Sarnoff Mountains () is a range of mountains, long and wide separating the west-flowing Boyd Glacier and Arthur Glacier in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Location The Sarnoff Mountains are in the Ford Ranges. They run in a northwest direction between Boyd Glacier to the southwest and Arthur Glacier to the north. Features include, from northwest to southeast, Walgreen Peak, The Billboard, Mount Rea, Mount Dolber, Mount Cooper, Mount Blades, Bailey Ridge, Asman Ridge, Mount Byrd, Mount Gonzáles, Mount McClung, Fleming Peaks and Mount Crow. Nearby features on the west side of Boyd Glacier include Mount Woodward, Mount Kohler and Mount Douglass. Nearby features to the north include Rea Rocks, Mount Warner and Andrews Peaks. Discovery and name The west end of the range was discovered and roughly plotted from photographs taken by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE; 1928–30) on the flight of December 5, 1929. The range was mapped in greater detail by the Byrd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
