Kennel Peak (75°1′S 133°44′W / 75.017°S 133.733°W / -75.017; -133.733) is a small but notable rock peak, over 800 metres (2,600 ft) high, about 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) north of Rockney Ridge in the Demas Range of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–69, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for ionospheric physicist A. Alexander Kennel, who was Station Scientific Leader at South Pole Station in 1969.[1]

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  1. ↑ "Kennel Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-04-26.

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