Holiday Peak
| Holiday Peak | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Holiday Peak (translated: holiday mountain ) is a 800 m high mountain in the south of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises in the Denton Hills between the lower sections of the Miers and Adams glaciers .
Participants in a 1960 to 1961 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named it so because from its summit they could overlook the expedition's camp, which was built for Christmas 1960.
In the 1960s he carried the unofficial name The Heart (translated: "The Heart "), from which the name of the neighboring Aorta Ridge was derived.
Web links
- Holiday Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holiday Peak on geographic.org (English)