Gordon Peak
| Gordon Peak | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Gordon Peak is a rocky mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In Sverdrupfjella it marks the north-western end of the Robinheia .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers mapped it using surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and aerial photographs from 1958 to 1959 of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). It is named after the Australian-British physicist Gordon de Quetteville Robin (1921-2004), the third executive member of the NBSAE.
Web links
- Gordon peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gordon Peak on geographic.org (English)