Pythagoras Peak
| Pythagoras Peak | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tula Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Pythagoras Peak is with 1275 m the highest mountain of the Tula Mountains in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 13 km southeast of Mount Storer in the center of the mountains and on the northern flank of the Beaver Glacier . Special features of the mountain are a notch that appears as a right-angled triangle from the northwest and a perpendicular north flank.
Participants of a team led by the Australian polar explorer Phillip Law as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions photographed him from Mount Riiser-Larsen in February 1958 . A sled team led by the Australian geodesist Graham Alexander Knuckey (1934-1969) paid him a first visit in December 1958. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (around 570 to after 510 BC) and the theorem he developed because of the right-angled notch .
Web links
- Pythagoras Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pythagoras Peak on geographic.org (English)