Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Bomb Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bomb Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A peak, 750m high, situated 2 1/2 miles westward of Cape Crozier on Ross Island. Surveyed and given this descriptive name by the NZGSAE, 1958-59, because of the bomb-like (pyroplastic) geological formations surrounding the summit of this peak. The rocks showered out by volcanic eruption left the appearance of a bomb-pocked region. The rocks, which are fist-sized and have become wind-eroded are particularly in evidence here.
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