Conradi Peak
| Conradi Peak | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 54 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Conradi Peak is a 1040 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 30 km southwest of Cape Borley and north of the Napier Mountains .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in January 1930. Mawson named him after a "well-known member of the government of South Africa", who in 1929 of the Expedition during their stay in Cape Town . Behind it is possibly the South African politician David Gideon Conradie [sic!] (1879–1966).
Web links
- Conradi peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Conradi Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 348 (English).