Long peak

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Long peak
height 2435  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 167 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 167 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E
Long Peak (Antarctica)
Long peak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Long Peak is a 2,435  m high mountain in the Admiralty Mountains in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It looms in the western center of the Lyttelton Range .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the biologist Otto L. Lange, who from 1966 to 1967 on the Hallett station was active.

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