Bell Peak

Bell Peak
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height	1620 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Herbert Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Bell Peak is a 1,620 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Herbert Range of the Königin Maud Mountains, it towers over a rock spur southwest of the Sargent Glacier that extends to the southeast .

It is possible that the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen spotted him for the first time between November and December 1911 on his South Pole expedition (1910–1912). Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) made a rough mapping . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after G. Grant Bell, who carried out investigations into cosmic rays at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1962 .

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