Lamina Peak
| Lamina Peak | ||
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| height | 1280 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Douglas Range | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 32 '46 " S , 68 ° 43' 29" W | |
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The Lamina Peak is a 1,280 m high and pyramid-shaped mountain peaks on the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It rises from a layered ridge that extends northeast from Mount Edred towards George VI Sound . The summit is 7 km inland to the east coast of the island at the southern end of the Douglas Range .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth saw him for the first time during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting photographs were used by Ellsworth's compatriot, the geographer WLG Joerg , for mapping. Geodetic surveys were carried out in 1936 participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) and in 1949 in the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The latter named the cape after its leaf-like horizontal rock layers.
Web links
- Lamina Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lamina Peak on geographic.org (English)