Poulton Peak
| Poulton Peak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Blånabbane | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Poulton Peak is a mountain summit in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is the highest point of a rocky mountain ridge in the northeastern part of the Blånabbane .
The summit served as an unnamed station for trigonometric surveys as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1965 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Michael Alexander Poulton, who worked as a weather observer at Mawson Station in 1965 .
Web links
- Poulton Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Poulton Peak on geographic.org (English)