Leslie Peak
| Leslie Peak | ||
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Leckie Range | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Leslie Peak is a rocky promontory with conical summit on the south end of the East Antarctic Kemp Land . It rises 8 km south of Mount Cook in the Leckie Range .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Leslie D. Miller, who was a radio operator at Mawson Station in 1964 and a member of a squad responsible for making tellurometer measurements in the Leckie Range in 1965.
Web links
- Leslie peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Leslie Peak on geographic.org (English)