Pegtop Mountain
| Pegtop Mountain | ||
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| height | 1395 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
 1962 topographic map (reviewed in 1988), Pegtop Mountain north of the Antarctic Dry Valleys to the northeast of the map |
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The Pegtop Mountain (English for Kreiselberg , alternatively Pegtop-Nunatak ) is an elongated mountain up to 1395 m high with numerous prominent rocky outcrops in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 5 km west of Sperm Bluff on the southern flank of the Mackay Glacier .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Pegtop Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pegtop Mountain on geographic.org (English)