Fang Peak (Antarctica)
| Fang Peak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Fang Peak (English for canine summit ) is a prominent and conical mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the David Range of the Framnes Mountains, it rises 1.5 km south of Mount Parsons .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) gave it its descriptive name. The mountain was used by the Australian geodesist Christopher Armstrong in 1959 as part of a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions as a location for trigonometric surveys of the area.
Web links
- Fang peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fang Peak on geographic.org (English)