Organ pipe peaks
| Organ pipe peaks | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Gothic Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 3 ′ S , 150 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Organ Pipe Peaks ( German Orgelpfeifengipfel ) are a 11 km long series of pointed mountain peaks in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They are part of the Gothic Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains immediately north of Mount Harkness and east of the Scott Glacier .
The geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered the formation in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and gave it the descriptive name because of the similarity to the arrangement of pipes in a church organ .
Web links
- Organ Pipe Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Organ Pipe Peaks on geographic.org (English)