Celestial Peak
| Celestial Peak | ||
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| height | 1280 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wilson Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Celestial Peak (English for Heavenly peak ) is a 1280 m high mountain of granite at the Oates Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wilson Hills, it rises eight miles north of Mount Blowaway .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountain between 1962 and 1963. The northern group of a campaign from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition used it as a station for geodetic and gravimetric surveys. The mountain owes its name to the fact that the northern group made the first star observations of the campaign nearby.
Web links
- Celestial Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Celestial Peak on geographic.org (English)