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)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Hochstetter Peak (BGR) | 63° 36' 52.0" S | 58° 18' 12.0" W | |
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Name ID: 137129
Place ID: 18819
The partly ice-free peak rising to over 1000 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land. Situated in the SE foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau, 6.83 km WSW of Kukuryak Bluff, 10.82 km NW of Levassor Nunatak and 2.69 km N by E of Smin Peak. Surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the E. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the German-Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829-1884) who worked in Bulgaria, other European countries and New Zealand. Approved on December 6, 2010. |
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