Tricorn Mountain

Tricorn Mountain
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height	3475 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Barton Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 173 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 85 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 173 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E

The Tricorn Mountain (English for Dreispitzberg ) is a 3475 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . As the highest mountain in the Barton Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 6 km east of Graphite Peak about halfway between the head ends of the Falkenhof and Leigh Hunt glaciers .

Participants in a research campaign from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the tricorn as the traditional headgear of an admiral .

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