Victories dome

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Victories dome
height 2100  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 84 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Siege Dome (Antarctica)
Victories dome

The Siege Dome ( English for Siege Dome ) is a small, ice-covered and 2100  m high mountain peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Commonwealth Range of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises south of the head end of Hood Glacier and southeast of Mount Patrick .

Participants of the New Zealand Alpine Club Antarctic Expedition (1959-1960) named him after they had to endure an eight-day blizzard when setting up a land survey station here .

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