Painted Peak (Viktorialand)
| Painted Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Painted Peak (English for painted peak ) is a mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Freyberg Mountains it rises in the northern part of the Russet Hills in the Gallipoli Heights .
The descriptive naming was made by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee at the suggestion of the geologist P. J. Oliver, who explored the mountain between 1981 and 1982 as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . It is named after the multi-layered coloring with ignimbrite rock and breccias made of dacite , which make up the mountain and which are interspersed with dykes made of andesite .
Web links
- Painted Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Painted Peak on geographic.org (English)