Eld Peak
| Eld Peak | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Lazarev Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Eld Peak is a prominent mountain peaks of 800 m height in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Lasarew Mountains it rises around 10 km southeast of Reynolds Peak on the western flank of the Matusevich glacier .
Two Peacock officers , Henry Eld (1814-1850) and William Reynolds (1815-1879), had sighted two peaks in this area on January 16, 1840 as part of the United States Exploring Expedition (1839-1842) led by Charles Wilkes . Wilkes named the more southeastern of the two after Eld. The exact location of the peaks described by Wilkes was achieved by Phillip Law on one of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1959.
Web links
- Eld Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eld Peak on geographic.org (English)