Gluck Peak (71°42′S 72°41′W / 71.700°S 72.683°W) is a rock peak, 335 metres (1,100 ft) high, located 6.5 nautical miles (12 km) south-southwest of Mount Borodin and immediately north of Alyabiev Glacier, lying between the bases of Bennett Dome and Shostakovich Peninsula on south side of the Beethoven Peninsula, southwest Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first mapped — from air photos taken by the 1947–48 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition — by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Christoph Willibald von Gluck, the Austrian composer (1714-1787).[1]
See also
editFurther reading
edit- J.L. SMELLIE, Lithostratigraphy of Miocene-Recent, alkaline volcanic fields in the Antarctic Peninsula and eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctic Science 71 (3): 362-378 (1999)
External links
edit- Gluck Peak Archived 16 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine on USGS website
- Gluck Peak on SCAR website
- Gluck Peak location on Satellite image
- Gluck Peak - distance calculator
References
edit- ^ "Gluck Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Gluck Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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