Salient Peak
| Salient Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Salient Peak (English for headland tip ) is a pillar-like mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It looms between Mount Rucker and Mount Hooker in the Royal Society Range . The Salient Ridge , which extends eastward from it, forms the watershed between the subsidiary glaciers of the Blue Glacier in the north and the Walcott Glacier in the south.
The New Zealand team to explore the Blue Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named him that because he remembers in its form of a tongue of land in the Royal Society Range, which is southwest to Mount Rucker and Mount Huggins extends .
Web links
- Salient Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Salient Peak on geographic.org (English)