Fields Peak [SEP] continent
Fields Peak
Fields Peak () is a small but distinctive peak southeast of Brandenberger Bluff on the lower northern slopes of Mount Berlin, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Master Sergeant Samuel J. Fields, U.S. Army, a member of the 1956 Army–Navy Trail Party that blazed a trail from Little America V to to establish Byrd Station.
dates the first discovery of the Antarctic continent, and Capt. Wilkes named the highest mountain peak Eld Peak (which is part of what was later named the Lazarev Mountains). They proved that the Antarctic was a continent (Eld was the first to see the Antarctic mountains at a crucial stage of their survey of the ice fields). On January 10, 1840 Eld was part of a two-man landing party to investigate Macquarie Island, one of the first men to do so. Splitting with his quarter-master