List of mountains or elevations in Antarctica
This is a list of the highest peaks in Antarctica . The individual summits can not be assigned to national territories , as territorial claims to the Antarctic are only recognized by a few countries.
Name of the mountain | height | Mountains | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|
Mount Vinson | 4892 m | Sentinel Range | |
Mount Tyree | 4852 m | Sentinel Range | |
Mount Shinn | 4661 m | Sentinel Range | |
Mount Kirkpatrick | 4528 m | Queen Alexandra Range | |
Mount Craddock | 4368 m | Sentinel Range | |
Mount Markham | 4350 m | Queen Elizabeth Range | |
Mount Kaplan | 4230 m | Hughes Range | |
Mount Sidley | 4181 m | Executive Committee Range | Extinct volcano |
Mount Dickerson | 4120 m | Queen Alexandra Range | |
Mount Wade | 4085 m | Prince Olav Mountains | |
Mount Fisher | 4080 m | Prince Olav Mountains | |
Mount Fridtjof Nansen | 4070 m | Queen Maud Mountains | |
Mount Adam | 4010 m | Admiralty Mountains | |
Mount Ray | 3905 m | Prince Olav Mountains | |
Mount Sellery | 3895 m | Prince Olav Mountains | |
Mount Sabine | 3850 m | Admiralty Mountains | |
Mount Oliver | over 3800 m | Prince Olav Mountains | |
Mount Erebus | 3794 m | active volcano on Ross Island | |
Mount Campbell | 3790 m | Prince Olav Mountains | |
Mount Ajax | 3770 m | Admiralty Mountains | |
Mount Frakes | 3654 m | Crary Mountains | volcano |
Mount Royalist | 3640 m | Admiralty Mountains | |
Toney Mountain | 3595 m | volcano | |
Mount Steere | 3558 m | Crary Mountains | volcano |
Mount Berlin | 3478 m | Flood range | active volcano |
Mount Takahe | 3460 m | volcano | |
Mount Black Prince | 3405 m | Admiralty Mountains | |
Mount Overlord | 3396 m | Extinct volcano | |
Mount Hampton | 3323 m | Executive Committee Range | |
Mount laundry | 3292 m | Executive Committee Range | Extinct volcano |
Mount Terror | 3262 m | Volcano on Ross Island | |
Mount Hope | 3239 m | Eternity Range | |
Mount Albert Markham | 3205 m | Churchill Mountains | |
Jøkulkyrkja | 3148 m | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
Mount Siple | 3110 m | Volcano on Siple Island | |
Mount Terra Nova | 3090 m | volcano | |
Mount Moulton | 3078 m | Extinct volcano | |
Mount Jackson | 3050 m | Palmerland | |
Pleiades | 3040 m | Volcanic group | |
Mount Field | 3010 m | Churchill Mountains | |
Mount Nares | over 3000 m | Churchill Mountains | |
Mount Mills | 2995 m | Dominion Range | |
Mount Stephenson | 2987 m | Douglas Range | |
Mount Andrus | 2978 m | volcano | |
Matterhorn | 2931 m | Drygalskiberge | |
Mount Ellsworth | 2925 m | Queen Maud Mountains | |
Mount Saunders | 2895 m | Dominion Range | |
Mount Nimrod | 2835 m | Dominion Range | |
Mount Egerton | 2830 m | Churchill Mountains | |
Mount Wharton | over 2800 m | Churchill Mountains | |
Mount Weaver | 2780 m | Queen Maud Mountains | |
Mount Nansen | 2740 m | Eisenhower Range | |
Mount Melbourne | 2732 m | volcano | |
Mount Morning | 2723 m | volcano | |
Mount Murphy | 2703 m | volcano | |
Mount Discovery | 2681 m | ||
Holtanna | 2650 m | Drygalskiberge | |
Mount Parry | 2520 m | ||
Mount Baxter | 2430 m | Eisenhower Range | |
Mount Summerson | 2310 m | Geologists Range | |
Mount Regina | 2080 m | Everett Range | |
Wallnerspitze | 1955 m | Kottas Mountains | |
Mount Bird | 1800 m | volcano | |
Lars Christensen Summit | 1640 m | Volcano on Peter I Island | |
Mount Helen | 1370 m | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
Mount Wilson | 1300 m | Bermel Peninsula | |
Mount Parker | 1260 m | Admiralty Mountains | |
Mount Scott | 880 m | Graham land | |
Brown bluff | 745 m | Volcano on the Tabarin Peninsula | |
Schauinsland | 450 m | ||
Gaussberg | 367 m | volcano |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Amos: Mt Hope installed as 'UK's highest peak' . BBC News , December 11, 2017.
- ↑ orf.at: Mount Hope named the highest mountain in Great Britain . Article dated December 11, 2017, accessed December 11, 2017.