Ragged peaks
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 59 ′ S , 51 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Ragged peaks (English for Jagged peaks ) are a distinctive group of mountains on the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbylands . They extend over a length of 13 km in a north-south orientation on the east bank of the Amundsen Bay . They include several rock pinnacles within a toothed mountain ridge . Five of the peaks are over 915 m high.
A group led by the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) to explore the Amundsen Bay as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions discovered the group in October 1956. It received its descriptive name from the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia .
Web links
- Ragged Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ragged Peaks on geographic.org (English)