Hargreaves Peak

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Hargreaves Peak
Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula with Hargreaves Peak (unnamed here and marked with an altitude of 2083 m)

Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula with Hargreaves Peak (unnamed here and marked with an altitude of 2083 m)

height 2083  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Coordinates 71 ° 37 '15 "  S , 170 ° 33' 5"  O Coordinates: 71 ° 37 '15 "  S , 170 ° 33' 5"  O
Hargreaves Peak (Antarctica)
Hargreaves Peak

The Hargreaves Peak is a 2,083  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the highest point on the Adare Peninsula and rises to the west and above the Downshire cliffs and east of Nameless Glacier .

The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 2008 after Paul Hargreaves (1939-2014), who was a member of this body from 2001 to 2008 and from 1956 to 1957 as a cadet on board the HMNZS Hawea in New Zealand's first scientific expedition to the Antarctic.

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