Altar Peak
| Altar Peak | ||
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| height | 1780 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 150 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Altar Peak is a 1,780 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises in the Queen Maud Mountains 1.5 km east-southeast of Mount Harkness in the Gothic Mountains .
The geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) visited the mountain in December 1934 on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The descriptive name goes back to a suggestion by Edward Stumps, who headed a geological team from Arizona State University as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program , which examined the mountain between 1987 and 1988.
Web links
- Altar Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Altar Peak on geographic.org (English)