Wall Peak
| Wall Peak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Wall Peak is a mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is the largest and most northerly of three pointed mountains that rise about 8 km southeast of the Husky Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains .
It was used for mapping aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1960. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Brian Henry Wall, an ionospheric physicist at Wilkes Station in 1960.
Web links
- Wall Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wall Peak on geographic.org (English)