Moyes Peak
| Moyes Peak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Moyes Peak is a small and rocky mountain peaks near the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It towers over the ice sheet 3 km north of Pearce Peak and 19 km southwest of Falla Bluff .
It was discovered in February 1931 by participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . He named it after Morten Henry Moyes (1886–1981), the cartographer of the research trip . The exact position of the summit was verified on the basis of aerial photographs taken on February 26, 1947 as part of Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Moyes Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moyes Peak on geographic.org (English)