Andrews Peak
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Andrews Peak is a peak
, 2400 metres (7,874 ft) high, in the Destination Nunataks
, 3 miles (5 km) west of Pyramid Peak
in north Victoria Land
. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
after Peter Andrews, geologist with the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) Evans Neve
field party, 1971–72, who worked in this area.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
, 2400 metres (7,874 ft) high, in the Destination Nunataks
Destination Nunataks
Destination Nunataks is a group of peaks and nunataks, 9 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, rising to 2,565 m at Pyramid Peak and including Sphinx Peak, Andrews Peak, Mummy Ridge, and unnamed nunataks to the northwest, located in northeast Evans Neve, 7 nautical miles northwest of...
, 3 miles (5 km) west of Pyramid Peak
Pyramid Peak (Antarctica)
Pyramid Peak is a peak in the southeast part of Destination Nunataks, Victoria Land, rising to 2,565 m. It is located 1 mile north of Sphinx Peak. Descriptively named by the Northern Party of NZFMCAE, 1962-63....
in north Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica...
after Peter Andrews, geologist with the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) Evans Neve
Evans Neve
Evans Neve is a large neve which nourishes the Tucker, Mariner, Aviator, Rennick and Lillie Glaciers. Named for Edgar Evans of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, by the Northern Party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1963-64. Evans, Wilson, Oates and Bowers...
field party, 1971–72, who worked in this area.