X-ray peak
| X-ray peak | ||
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| height | 700 m | |
| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 2 '23 " S , 62 ° 17' 22" W | |
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The Röntgen Peak is a 700 m high mountain in the north of the Brabant Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It rises 1.5 km southeast of Cape Cockburn in the northeast part of the Pasteur Peninsula .
The mountain is still unnamed for the first time on an Argentine map from 1953. Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957 were used for mapping in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923).
Web links
- X-ray peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Röntgen Peak on geographic.org (English)