Cleft Peak (Antarctica)
| Cleft Peak | ||
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| height | 1245 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 173 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Cleft Peak is a distinctive and 1245 m high mountain on the Dufek Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises in the western part of the Separation Range above the mouth of the Hood Glacier in the Ross Ice Shelf .
Four participants in the New Zealand Alpine Club Antarctic Expedition (1959–1960) landed in the vicinity of the mountain with the support of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron. They named it after the crevice ( English cleft ) which runs through the entire eastern flank of the mountain from the top to the base.
Web links
- Cleft Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cleft Peak on geographic.org (English)