Johnston Peak
| Johnston Peak | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 52 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Johnston Peak is a mountain with a sharp peak in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 11 km north of Mount Marr and 18 km northwest of Douglas Peak .
The mountain was discovered in January 1930 by participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1930) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . This named him after the Australian parasitologist Thomas Harvey Johnston (1881-1951), the lead biologist of the research trip .
Web links
- Johnston Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Johnston Peak on geographic.org (English)