Heale Peak

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Heale Peak
height 1340  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 81 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 81 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E
Heale Peak (Antarctica)
Heale Peak

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).

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