Consolation Peak
Consolation Peak | ||
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height | 980 m | |
location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
Coordinates | 67 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Trost Peak is a 980 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the South Masson Range of the Framnes Mountains, it rises 2.5 km northeast of Mount Burnett .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Participants in the campaigns of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , which lasted between 1957 and 1960 , carried out a new mapping and named it after the radiation physicist Peter Albert Trost (* 1925), who worked at Mawson Station in 1958 .
Web links
- Consolation peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trost Peak on geographic.org (English)