Hamm Peak
| Hamm Peak | ||
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| height | 151 m | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 74 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Hamm Peak is a small, rocky and 151 m high mountain on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It rises immediately south of Strover Peak and 10 km west-northwest of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after George F. Hamm, head of Mawson Station in 1968, who had set up a surveying station on the mountain .
Web links
- Hamm peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hamm Peak on geographic.org (English)