Red Rock Peak
| Red Rock Peak | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Concord Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Red Rock Peak (English for Red Rock Summit ) is a 2000 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Concord Mountains, it rises 1.5 km north-northwest of Thomson Peak in the southern part of the Mirabito Range .
The New Zealand geologist Bradley Field of the New Zealand Geological Survey , a member of a team of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program that worked in this area between 1980 and 1981 , named it descriptively after the reddish mudstone found here .
Web links
- Red Rock Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Red Rock Peak on geographic.org (English)