Adam's Peak
| Adam's Peak | ||
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| height | 1540 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Adam's Peak is a 1,540 m high mountain on the eastern flank of Starshot Glacier , 3 km south of the Heale peak in the Surveyors Range rises.
Participants of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-1961) named after the New Zealand geodesist Charles William Adams (1840-1918), who in 1883 the geographic longitude, which runs over the Mount Cook district in Wellington , as a reference value for all New Zealand land surveys to Established in 1949.
Web links
- Adam's Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Adams Peak on geographic.org (English)