Reynolds Peak
| Reynolds Peak | ||
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| height | 785 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Lazarev Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Reynolds Peak is a prominent mountain peaks of 785 m height at the Oates Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Lasarew Mountains, it rises around 10 km northwest of Eld Peak on the western flank of the Matusevich Glacier .
Two Peacock officers , Henry Eld (1814-1850) and William Reynolds (1815-1879), had sighted two peaks in this area on January 16, 1840 as part of the United States Exploring Expedition (1839-1842) led by Charles Wilkes . Wilkes named the more northwestern of the two after Reynolds. The exact location of the peaks described by Wilkes was achieved by Phillip Law on one of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1959.
Web links
- Reynolds Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reynolds Peak on geographic.org (English)