Mount Macelwane [SEP] continent
Mount Macelwane
Mount Macelwane () is the highest peak in the eastern part of the Nash Hills of Antarctica. The peak was positioned by the U.S. Ellsworth–Byrd Traverse Party on December 14, 1958, and named for Reverend James B. Macelwane, S.J., first chairman of the Technical Panel for Seismology and Gravity of the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year, as set up by the National Academy of Sciences. It lies within the Chilean Antarctic Territory.
See also.
- Mountains in Antarctica
In 2003, he received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and was elected a fellow of AGU. He is the first Chinese scientist to win the medal, often called the "Nobel Prize" of geological sciences.
In 2018, Wen's team at USTC concluded that Mount Mantap at North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site collapsed after its nuclear weapon testing in September 2017. A similar conclusion was independently reached by the team of Liu Junqing of the China Earthquake Administration.