Blundell Peak
| Blundell Peak | ||
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| height | 162 m | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Larsemann Hills | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 76 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Blundell Peak is a rocky hill on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It rises as the highest peak of the Larsemann Hills on the Stornes peninsula in Prydz Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped the mountain using aerial photos taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Anthony A. Blundell, radio operator at Mawson Station in 1968, who was involved in tellurometer surveys from this mountain to the Reinbolt Hills that same year as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions was.
Web links
- Blundell Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blundell Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica. Antarctic Specially Managed Area. Management Plan (PDF; 3.04 MB), Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, 2014 (English)