Clarkson Peak
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Clarkson Peak is a prominent conical peak
, 2825 metre high, at the head of Robb Glacier
, on the spur running west from Mount Miller. It was sighted in January 1958 by the New Zealand Southern Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
(1956–58), and named for Mr. T.R. Clarkson, a member of the Ross Sea Committee.
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...
, 2825 metre high, at the head of Robb Glacier
Robb Glacier
Robb Glacier is a glacier about 40 nautical miles long, flowing from Clarkson Peak north along the east side of Softbed Ridges to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Goldie. Named by the expedition after Murray Robb, leader of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , who traversed this...
, on the spur running west from Mount Miller. It was sighted in January 1958 by the New Zealand Southern Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...
(1956–58), and named for Mr. T.R. Clarkson, a member of the Ross Sea Committee.