Inferno Peak

Inferno Peak
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height	2100 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 72 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E

The Inferno Peak is a 2,100 m high mountain peaks on the northern end of the Millen Range in the Victory Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 5 km north of Le Couteur Peak .

The southern group New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition (1962–1963) named it after the Italian term for hell . During geological investigations a contact layer between granite and greywacke with baked sedimentary rock was discovered, which indicates volcanic activity and gives the summit a reddish color.

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