Mill Peak
| Mill Peak | ||
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| height | 1760 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mill Peak is a distinctive and 1760 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises from the Antarctic Ice Sheet 16 km south of Pearce Peak and 50 km south of Cape Simpson .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in February 1931. Mawson named him after Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950), longtime librarian of the Royal Geographical Society .
Web links
- Mill Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mill Peak on geographic.org (English)