Mount Peter
| Mount Peter | ||
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| height | 1755 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Peter is a large, dome-shaped and 1,755 m high rock formation in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Athos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 3 km east of Mount Béchervaise . Its flat north flank is not icy.
A team led by the Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998) visited the mountain for the first time in 1955 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after the Australian geologist Peter Crohn (1925) –2015), who worked at Mawson Station from 1955 to 1956 .
Web links
- Mount Peter in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Peter on geographic.org (English)