Tillberg Peak
| Tillberg Peak | ||
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| height | 610 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 46 ′ 40 " S , 60 ° 54 ′ 18" W | |
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The Tillberg Peak is a 610 m high and mostly non-iced mountain on the Nordenskjöld coast of the Antarctic Graham Land . It rises from a mountain ridge that extends from the Foster Plateau in an easterly direction to the Sentinel Nunatak .
Otto Nordenskjöld , head of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) named a supposed group of islands in the Larsen Ice Shelf as Tillberg Öarna. It is named after Knut Henning Robert Tillberg (1860–1940), a Swedish judge and financier of the research trip. Since Nordenskjöld's archipelago could not be identified in later investigations, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the designation to the mountain described here in 1964.
Web links
- Tillberg Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tillberg Peak on geographic.org (English)