Voit Peak

Voit Peak (66°40′S 65°35′W / 66.667°S 65.583°W / -66.667; -65.583Coordinates: 66°40′S 65°35′W / 66.667°S 65.583°W / -66.667; -65.583) is a peak between Drummond and Hopkins Glaciers on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in 1956-57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Carl von Voit (1831–1908), German physiologist, pioneer of basic metabolic studies who published what was probably the first standard of human calorie requirements in 1881.

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