McCarroll Peak () is a rock peak, high, standing at the south side of Richthofen Pass on the east coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee a ...

, Antarctica. The peak was probably first seen by the

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under Otto Nordenskjöld, 1901–04. The name "Cape McCarroll" for H.G. McCarroll of

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, was given to the south side of Nordenskjöld's "Richthofen Valley" (now Richthofen Pass) by

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on his flight of December 20, 1928. The name has been modified and applied to the peak here described in order to maintain the intended relationship between the McCarroll and Richthofen features.

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