Graphite Peak
| Graphite Peak | ||
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| height | 3260 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Barton Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Graphite Peak (English for graphite tip is) a 3260 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Barton Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises from the northwest end of a ridge 5 km northeast of Mount Clarke and immediately south of the head end of the Falkenhof Glacier .
Participants in a research campaign that ran from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the mineral graphite they came across while exploring the mountain.
American paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago discovered fossil remains of the archosaur Antarctanax shackletoni, named after the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Graphite Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Graphite Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brandon R. Peecook, Roger MH Smith, Christian A. Sidor: A novel archosauromorph from Antarctica and an updated review of a high-latitude vertebrate assemblage in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 2019, 1. doi: 10.1080 / 02724634.2018.1536664 .
- ↑ Amit Malewar: Iguana-sized dinosaur cousin discovered in Antarctica. Article on techexplorist.com, February 1, 2019 (accessed February 4, 2019).