Painted Peak (Mac Robertson Land)

Painted Peak
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height	710 m
location	Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Framnes Mountains
Coordinates	67 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 67 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E

Painted Peak (English for painted tip ) is a 710 m high and prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It looms in the North Masson Range of the Framnes Mountains .

Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . A team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited it in 1955 and named it descriptively after the striking red-brown color of its rock.

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