Conway Peak

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Conway Peak
height 1800  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 22 '13 "  S , 160 ° 53' 45"  E Coordinates: 77 ° 22 '13 "  S , 160 ° 53' 45"  O
Conway Peak (Antarctica)
Conway Peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Conway Peak is an ice-free peaks of 1800  m altitude in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises between the Wreath Valley and the Albert Valley in the Apocalypse Peaks .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after the New Zealander Maurice Conway, who served as a field guide for German expeditions to Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land (1979-2000) and for the United States Antarctic Program on Roosevelt Island and to Glacier flows in western Marie-Byrd-Land (1997-2004).

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