Priestley Peak
| Priestley Peak | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 50 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Priestley Peak is a prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises up on the south bank of Amundsen Bay between Mount Pardoe and Mount Tod .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered it on January 14, 1930. Mawson named the mountain after the British geologist and polar explorer Raymond Priestley (1886-1974), participant on the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Priestley Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Priestley Peak on geographic.org (English)