Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Moore Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Moore Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A peak rising to c.2500 m on the W slope of Mount Terror, Ross Island. The peak is 1.6 mi WSW of the summit of Mount Terror and 1 mi S of Mount Sutherland. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by US-ACAN (2000) after James A. Moore, a member of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology team on Mount Erebus in the 1983-84 and 1985-86 field seasons. He completed his M.S. thesis on the geology of Mount Erebus.
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