Cordiner Peaks

The Cordiner Peaks are a group of hillas within the Dufek Massif, in the Pensacola Mountains of Queen Elizabeth Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

These hills rise to 4,117 feet above sea level at the summit of Jackson Peak and include Rosser Ridge, Sumrall Peak and Jackson Peak. They were seen from the air on a nonstop, transcontinental flight by a United States Navy P2V-2N Neptune aircraft from McMurdo Sound (in New Zealand's Ross Dependency) to the Weddell Sea and back on 13 January 1956. It is named after Captain Douglas L. Cordiner, the United States Navy observer on the flight, in association with the names of other crew members in this area. The peaks were photographed from the air by the United States Navy in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on US Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66.

Location

• Location map: 82°48’15"S, 53°31’3"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Cordiner Peaks