Murayama Crests
| Murayama Crests | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 12 ′ S , 158 ° 34 ′ E | |
The Murayama Crests a group of around four mountain peaks or nunataks up to 2020 m high in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains, they rise 6 km north-northeast of Kanak Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2001 after the Japanese geochemist Haruta Murayama of Yokohama State University , who was involved in research in the Antarctic dry valleys from 1981 to 1982 .
Web links
- Murayama Crests in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murayama Crests on geographic.org (English)