Longstaff peaks
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 Map of the Holland Range with the Longstaff Peaks |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Holland Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 54 ′ S , 165 ° 42 ′ E | |
The Longstaff Peaks are a series of high mountain peaks in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the north-central part of the Holland Range, they rise immediately west of the Davidson Glacier .
The southern group of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) around the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered them. Scott misleadingly named it Mount Longstaff after Llewellyn Wood Longstaff (1841-1918), the main private sponsor of the expedition. The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee adapted this naming to the actual nature of the geographic object.
Web links
- Longstaff peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Longstaff Peaks on geographic.org (English)