Heale Peak
Heale Peak | ||
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height | 1340 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 81 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Heale Peak is a 1,340 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Surveyors Range, it rises 3 km north of Adams Peak on the eastern flank of the Starshot Glacier .
Participants of the campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the New Zealand geodesist Theophilus Heale (1816-1885), an early representative of triangulation measurement (1868).
Web links
- Heale Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heale Peak on geographic.org (English)