Chaplin Peak

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Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.
Sentinel Range map.

Chaplin Peak is the peak rising to 1978 m on the west side of Bender Glacier, 5 mi southwest of Mount Craddock in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.

The peak was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Stephen Neville Chaplin, geologist and member of the Omega Foundation High Antarctic GPS Expedition 2005-06 that conducted GPS surveys of peaks in the area, including this peak. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

  • Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.

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