Rowell Peak

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Rowell Peak
height 1725  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E
Rowell Peak (Antarctica)
Rowell Peak

The Rowell Peak is a 1,725  m high mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the highest peak on Reilly Ridge in the Lanterman Range of the Bowers Mountains .

The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 after the geologist Albert John Rowell (* 1929), who worked in this area between 1981 and 1982 as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program .

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