Feature Name (see definition): MacDonald Peak

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 9204

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 77° 40' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 086° 40' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -77.6666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -86.6666667

Elevation (see definition): 1940

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1961

Description (see definition): Peak, 1,940 m, midway between Shockey Peak and Mount Crawford near the N end of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of Nov. 23, 1935. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1961) for William R. MacDonald of the Branch of Special Maps, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which prepared the 1962 map of this range. Subsequently, MacDonald participated in numerous expeditions to Antarctica to supervise aerial photography used in preparing U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps of the continent. At the time of his death (1977) he was Chief of the Branch of International Activities, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and a member of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

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