Dallmeyer Peak
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Dallmeyer Peak is a peak, 1,105 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Steinheil Point
Steinheil Point
Steinheil Point is a point 5 nautical miles southeast of Duthiers Point on the west side of Andvord Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. First roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99...

 on the south side of Andvord Bay
Andvord Bay
Andvord Bay is a bay long and wide, which lies between Beneden Head and Duthiers Point along the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by him for Rolf Andvord, Belgian consul at Christiania at that time....

, on the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. The peak appears on an Argentine government chart of 1952. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for John H. Dallmeyer (1830–83), English (formerly German) optician who independently developed the "rectilinear" photographic lens.
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