Cathedral peaks
| Cathedral peaks | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 44 ′ S , 175 ° 40 ′ W | |
The Cathedral Peaks (English for cathedral peaks ) are a rugged massif with several striking mountain peaks in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains they extend north of Lubbock Ridge for a length of eight miles along the eastern flank of Shackleton Glacier .
The American geologist Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), head of a team at Texas Tech University to explore the Shackleton Glacier between 1962 and 1963, named the massif because the peaks reminded him of the pinnacles and spiers of a cathedral .
Web links
- Cathedral Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cathedral Peaks on geographic.org (English)