El Pulgar
| El Pulgar | ||
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| height | 1660 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | 1967/1968 | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
El Pulgar (Spanish for The thumb ) is a distinctive and 1660 m high monolith of granite in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the northern Morozumi Range of the Usarp Mountains, it rises 5 km north of Berg Peak .
Four participants in the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, which lasted from 1967 to 1968, climbed it and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- El Pulgar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- El Pulgar on geographic.org (English)