Rundle peaks
| Rundle peaks | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 44 ′ S , 157 ° 12 ′ E | |
 Map sheet Mount Olympus from 1964, Rundle Peaks in the southern half of the eastern edge of the map |
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The Rundle Peaks are a group of mainly icy mountain peaks in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They are located on the southern flank of the Byrd Glacier immediately east of the confluence of the Sefton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Arthur S. Rundle, a member of the teams of the United States Antarctic Research Program , who carried out glaciological and geophysical studies of the Ross Ice Shelf between 1961 and 1962 and from 1962 to 1963 .
Web links
- Rundle Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rundle Peaks on geographic.org (English)