Hochstetter Peak [SEP] continent
Hochstetter Peak
Hochstetter Peak (, ‘Vrah Hochstetter’ \'vr&h 'hoh-shte-ter\) is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 1000 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the east and south.
The peak is named after the German-Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829-1884) who worked in Bulgaria, other European countries and New Zealand.
Location.
Hochstetter Peak is located
northeast of Kolobar Nunatak, 10.82 km southeast of Hochstetter Peak and 10 km west-southwest of Chernopeev Peak. German-British mapping in 1996.
Map.
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.