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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Le Vaux Peak (USA) 76° 40' 00.0" S 125° 43' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 127883 Place ID: 8245

A small peak on the east side of the crater rim of Mount Cumming in the Executive Committee Range, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1958-60. Named by US-ACAN for Howard A. Le Vaux, auroral physicist at Byrd Station, 1959, and a member of the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party, 1959-60.

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