Scarab Peak
| Scarab Peak | ||
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| height | 3160 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mesa Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Scarab Peak is a striking and 3160 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Mesa Range, it rises 3 km northeast of Mount Frustum at the southeast end of Tobin Mesa .
The northern group of a campaign from 1962 to 1963 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it descriptively after its resemblance to a scarab beetle (Scarabaeidae).
Web links
- Scarab Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scarab Peak on geographic.org (English)