Aker Peaks
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 37 ′ S , 55 ° 13 ′ E | |
The Aker Peaks are a group of mountain peaks with a maximum height of 1800 m in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They extend 6.5 km west of the Nicholas Range and 48 km west-northwest of Edward VIII Bay over a length of 14.5 km in a northwest-southeast orientation.
They were discovered on January 14, 1831 by the Norwegian whaler Otto Borchgrevink, who named them after the farm of the whaling entrepreneur Svend Foyn Bruun (1883–1956) in Tønsberg .
Web links
- Aker Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aker Peaks on geographic.org (English)