List of mountains or elevations in Antarctica

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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 0880 m Graham land
Brown bluff 0745 m Volcano on the Tabarin Peninsula
Schauinsland 0450 m
Gaussberg 0367 m volcano

Individual evidence

  1. Jonathan Amos: Mt Hope installed as 'UK's highest peak' . BBC News , December 11, 2017.
  2. orf.at: Mount Hope named the highest mountain in Great Britain . Article dated December 11, 2017, accessed December 11, 2017.