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)
Tent Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tent 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, 1500m high which was occupied as an astronomical station during the NZGSAE, 1958-59. It lies midway between Cape Crozier and Mt Terror on the slopes leading up to Mt Terror. The name was proposed by the expeditoin because of the resemblance of the feature to a tent and also because their tent site of 5 January 1959 was just below it.
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