Archer Peak

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Archer Peak
Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula and Possession Island (bottom right) with Archer Peak

Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula and Possession Island (bottom right) with Archer Peak

height 110  m
location Possession Island , Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Coordinates 71 ° 52 '0 "  S , 171 ° 10' 0"  O Coordinates: 71 ° 52 '0 "  S , 171 ° 10' 0"  O
Archer Peak (Antarctica)
Archer Peak

The Archer Peak is a 110  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises as the southwestern branch of Possession Island in the Ross Sea southeast of the Adare Peninsula .

Participants of the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898-1900) under the direction of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink named him after the Norwegian ship designer Colin Archer (1832-1921), builder of the whaler Pollux from 1886, the Borchgrevink in Southern Cross renamed and used as a transport ship on this research trip.

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