Tent Peak
# Tent Peak

Tent Peak is a tent-shaped peak rising to about 1,570 metres (5,150 ft) midway between Mount Terror and Cape Crozier in eastern Ross Island, near Antarctica. Descriptively named by a party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1958–59, which occupied the peak as an astronomical control station, January 5, 1959, and erected a tent below the peak.

This article incorporates public domain material from "Tent Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

77°30′S 168°58′E﻿ / ﻿77.500°S 168.967°E﻿ / -77.500; 168.967

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