Mount Peacock
| Mount Peacock | ||
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| height | 3210 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount Peacock is a 3210 m high mountain peaks in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . The mountain rises 2.7 km southwest of Mount Herschel between this mountain and Mount Humphrey Lloyd, directly at the head of the Kelly Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered him on February 15, 1841 during his Antarctic expedition (1839-1843). Ross named the mountain after the British mathematician George Peacock (1791-1858), a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , at whose instigation Ross' expedition had been approved by the British government.