Kemp Peak
| Kemp Peak | ||
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| height | 340 m | |
| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Stillwell Hills | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kemp Peak is a 340 m high and prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Kempland . It rises up immediately southeast of Stefansson Bay in the Stillwell Hills .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in January 1930. Mawson named him after the British marine biologist and oceanographer Stanley Wells Kemp (1882-1945), chief scientist of the British Discovery Investigations from 1924 to 1936. Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . They descriptively named the mountain as Hornet (Norwegian for horn ).
Web links
- Kemp Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kemp Peak on geographic.org (English)