Peter Crest
| Peter Crest | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Peter Crest is the 1600 m high peak of Mulgrew-Nunatak in the Cook Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Peter David Mulgrew (1927-1979), New Zealand participant in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958), who crashed on November 28, 1979 when the Air New Zealand flight crashed 901 was killed on Ross Island .
Web links
- Peter Crest in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peter Crest on geographic.org (English)