Kyrkjeskipet Peak

Kyrkjeskipet Peak () is a peak, 3,085 m (10,121 ft) , just north of Kapellet Canyon and dominating the northeast part of Jøkulkyrkja Mountain in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Antarctica.

Discovery and naming

Kyrkjeskipet Peak was mapped from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-60) and named Kyrkjeskipet (the church nave).^[1]

See also

• East Antarctica Ranges
• East Antarctic two-thousanders
• History of Antarctica
• List of Antarctic expeditions

References

"Kyrkjeskipet Peak". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:8325. Retrieved 31 May 2010. 

External links

• United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Kyrkjeskipet Peak" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).