Ponder Peak
| Ponder Peak | ||
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| height | 1412 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 '0 " S , 162 ° 46' 0" E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Ponder Peak is a 1412 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the northeast Asgard Range rises at the head of the Repeater Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1998. It is named after the New Zealand architect William Frank Ponder (* 1916), who built Scott Base in 1957 as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) and for the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958) had designed.
Web links
- Ponder Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ponder Peak on geographic.org (English)