McCollum Peak

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McCollum Peak ( 65°32′S64°2′W / 65.533°S 64.033°W / -65.533; -64.033 ) is a peak, 735 metres (2,410 ft) high, standing south of Beascochea Bay 2 nautical miles (4 km) southeast of Mount Waugh, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908–10, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Elmer V. McCollum, an American biochemist who first isolated vitamins A and B, in 1915. [1]

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  1. "McCollum Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2013-09-05.

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