Edge peak
| Edge peak | ||
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| height | 1510 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The edge peak is a distinctive and 1510 m high mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises in the southern part of the Nebraska Peaks of the Britannia Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2000 after the American geophysicist John H. Rand of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover , New Hampshire , who worked on the J- ice well from 1974 to 1975 and from 1976 to 1977. 9 of the Ross Ice Shelf -project in the United States Antarctic Research Program at 82 ° 22 ' S , 168 ° 40' O was involved.
Web links
- Edge peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rand Peak on geographic.org (English)