Phoenix Peak
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Phoenix Peak is a peak
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

 immediately south of Muskeg Gap
Muskeg Gap
Muskeg Gap is a low isthmus at the north end of Sobral Peninsula, Graham Land. The gap provides a coastal route which avoids a long detour around Sobral Peninsula Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the...

 at the north end of Sobral Peninsula
Sobral Peninsula
Sobral Peninsula is a high and mainly ice-covered peninsula projecting from Nordenskjöld Coast in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. The feature is 11 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide and projects southward into the northern part of Larsen Ice Shelf west of Larsen Inlet...

, 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...

. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after the Phoenix Manufacturing Co. of Eau Claire
Eau Claire
Eau Claire is the name of a number of locations and features in North America. The name is pronounced as if it were spelled "O'Clare".-Communities:*Eau Claire, Calgary, a neighborhood in Calgary, Alberta...

, Wisconsin, which started in 1906-07 to design and build steam "locomotive sleds" for hauling logs over ice and snow, probably the earliest successful vehicles of their type.
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