Amphitheater Peaks
| Amphitheater Peaks | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Nye Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 6 ′ S , 48 ° 52 ′ E | |
The Amphitheater Peaks are a group of mountain peaks around and east of Amphitheater Lake in the northwestern part of the Nye Mountains in East Antarctica Enderbyland .
Participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions photographed them from the air in 1956 and explored them from land in 1958. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them based on the descriptive naming of the lake of the same name.
Web links
- Amphitheater peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Amphitheater Peaks on geographic.org (English)