Compost Peak
| Compost Peak | ||
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| height | 2554 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 6 '34 " S , 165 ° 10' 53" O | |
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The Compost Peak is a 2,554 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises 5 km north of Levi Peak south of Wahl Glacier and west of the Grindley Plateau .
The mountain was on a flagged route for participants in the Central Transantarctic Mountains Camp (2010-2011) on the Bowden firn field . Name to refer to is compost reminiscent staining of Doleritvorkommen one in the form talus on a slope of the mountain, of the remainder of sandstone the so-called Buckley formation with Dykes and sills of so-called Ferrar Dolerit exists.
Web links
- Compost peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)