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MacDonald Peak, a Common card
MacDonald Peak is a peak rising to 1,940 metres midway between Shockey Peak and Mount Crawford near the north end of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 31
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 52
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170
Power 52 (ATK + DEF).
MacDonald Peak quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the MacDonald Peak card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
At the time of his death in ____ he was Chief of the Branch of International Activities in the USGS and a member of the US-ACAN, part of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
Answer
1970s. At the time of his death in 1977 he was Chief of the Branch of International Activities in the USGS and a member of the US-ACAN, part of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. From the MacDonald Peak article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Discotectonica. Discotectonica 41 · Chōmonkyō Prefectural Natural Park 34 · MacDonald Peak 31 · Lasiocarpus 25 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1961 for William R. MacDonald of the Branch of Special Maps in the United States Geological Survey who prepared the 1962 map of this range.
- Subsequently, MacDonald participated in numerous expeditions to Antarctica to supervise aerial photography used in preparing USGS maps of the continent.
- At the time of his death in 1977 he was Chief of the Branch of International Activities in the USGS and a member of the US-ACAN, part of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The MacDonald Peak article was read about 170 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 31 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get MacDonald Peak
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, MacDonald Peak (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Antarctica_relief_location_map.jpg : Alexrk2 derivative work: Apcbg ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
