Crookes Peak
| Crookes Peak | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 14 '24 " S , 65 ° 21' 37" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Crookes peak is around 1500 m high mountain at the Graham Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the east side of the Widmark-Piedmont Glacier halfway between Stair Hill and Rugg Peak .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the British physicist and chemist William Crookes (1832-1919), whose pioneering work in the field of the optical properties of tinted glass led to the development of the first glasses to effectively prevent snow blindness .
Web links
- Crookes peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crookes Peak on geographic.org (English)