Contact Peak
| Contact Peak | ||
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| height | 1005 m | |
| location | Pourquoi-Pas Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 46 ′ 13 ″ S , 67 ° 27 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Contact Peak is a distinctive and 1005 m high mountain , the southern elevation of the Pourquoi Pas Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham country represents.
It was discovered and roughly mapped during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out measurements. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey repeated this in 1948 and named the mountain. It is named after special granitic rock varieties in the cliffs of the mountain, which are visible from a great distance.
Web links
- Contact Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Contact Peak on geographic.org (English)