Date peak
| Date peak | ||
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| height | 1575 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Datum Peak is a 1575 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 2.6 km west of Williams Peak above the southern flank of the Gauss Glacier near the southwestern extension of Hobbs Ridge .
Like numerous other geographical objects in the area, this mountain is also named after a term borrowed from geodesy . The New Zealand Geographic Board made the name in 1993. The name is given by the geodetic date .
Web links
- Date Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Date Peak on geographic.org (English)