Hayes Peak (Mac Robertson Land)
| Hayes Peak | ||
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| height | 340 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 28 '0 " S , 60 ° 46' 0" E | |
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The Hayes Peak is a 340 m high, cone-shaped mountain peaks near the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It rises 3 km south of Cape Bruce and Oom Bay through the continental ice sheet .
It was discovered in February 1931 by participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named it after James Gordon Hayes (1877-1936), a British historian and author of several books on the Arctic and Antarctic.
Web links
- Hayes peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hayes Peak on geographic.org (English)