Ball Peak

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Ball Peak
height 1700  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  E
Ball Peak (Antarctica)
Ball Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The ball Peak is a 1,700  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises at the head of the Loftus Glacier at a distance of 1.1 km southwest of Mount McLennan in the vicinity of Mount Hall and Harris Peak .

The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 1998 after the New Zealand mountaineer Gary Ball (1953-1993), who worked from 1976 to 1977 as a survival coach at Scott Base and for GANOVEX I (1979-1980).

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