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)
Tschuffert Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tschuffert 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:
A prominent, isolated peak, about 244 m high, about 3 km SSE of Taylor Rookery in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Svartpiggen (The Black Peak) by Norwegian cartographers.
Renamed after H. Tschuffert, meteorological observer at Mawson in 1958.
No images of this place could be found.
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