Naish peaks
| Naish peaks | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 14 ′ S , 166 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Naish Peaks are a 7 km long series of up to 2,847 m high mountain peaks in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They rise in an east-west orientation between the ice cap at the Dominion Range and the Meyer Desert to the north .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 2016 after the glaciologist Timothy Raimond Naish , director of the Antarctic Research Center at Victoria University of Wellington .
Web links
- Naish Peaks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)