Hardiman's Peak
| Hardiman's Peak | ||
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| height | 1210 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Hardiman Peak is a 1,210 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises in the Prince Olav Mountains , where it forms the eastern branch of a mountain ridge along the northern flank of the Sotikow Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Terrance L. Hardiman (1934-2013), geomagnetologist and seismologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1965.
Web links
- Hardiman Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hardiman Peak on geographic.org (English)