Pythagoras Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Pythagoras Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The highest feature of the central Tula Mountains, having a prominent notched peak, the eastern aspect being a right-angled triangle with a perpendicular northern face. This feature was photographed from Mt. Riiser-Larsen by ANARE led by Phillip Law in February, 1958, but was first visited and surveyed in December, 1958 by G.A. Knuckey, ANARE surveyor, during a dog-sledge journey from Amundsen Bay to Mawson. Named after Pythagoras, Greek philosopher, whose theorem concerning a right-angled triangle is well known.
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