- Cordiner Peaks
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Cordiner Peaks is a group of peaks extending over an area of 6 nautical miles (11 km), standing 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of Dufek Massif in the north part of the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 in the course of a transcontinental nonstop plane flight by personnel of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain Douglas L. Cordiner, U.S. Navy, an observer on the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft making this flight. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and U.S. Navy tricamera aerial photographs taken 1964.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cordiner Peaks" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).Coordinates: 82°48′S 53°30′W / 82.8°S 53.5°W
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