Messent Peak
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| Messent Peak | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Bristly Peaks | ||
| Summit: | 3,609 feet 69°24’0"S, 66°13’0"W | ||
Messent Peak is one of the Bristly Peaks of northern Palmer Land in the British Antarctic Territory. Messent rises to about 3,610 feet above sea level just west of Brodie Peak and five nautical miles southwest of Mount Castro in the central Antarctic Peninsula.
The peak was named by the United States' Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1977 for David R. Messent, a geodesist at the U.S. Army Topographic Command (later the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center), Palmer Station, winter party 1969.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Messent Peak