Windwhistle Peak
| Windwhistle Peak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Allan Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Windwhistle Peak ( English for wind whistle tip ) is a cube-shaped mountain peak made of sandstone in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills , it looms south of Punchbowl Cirque .
It was explored in 1964 by a team working in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . It named it after the whistling noises that the wind makes in the vicinity of the summit.
Web links
- Windwhistle Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Windwhistle Peak on geographic.org (English)