Strover Peak
| Strover Peak | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 74 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Strover Peak is a low and rocky mountain on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land, East Antarctica . It rises 10 km west-northwest of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen .
Norwegian cartographers, who named him Svartmulen (Norwegian for black mouth ), mapped him using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia , however, named it after William G. H. Strover, who in 1963 monitored radio traffic at Davis Station and was part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ' team that surveyed this mountain.
Web links
- Strover peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Strover Peak on geographic.org (English)