Black Pudding Peak
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Black Pudding Peak is an isolated black mountain located 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Mount Brogger
in the Prince Albert Mountains
, Victoria Land
. It was named for its squat black appearance (see black pudding) by the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
, 1956–58.
Mount Brogger
Mount Brøgger is a mountain, high, which forms part of the north wall of Cleveland Glacier about north of Referring Peak, in the Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. It was charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, which named it for Professor Waldemar C. Brøgger, Norwegian...
in the Prince Albert Mountains
Prince Albert Mountains
The Prince Albert Mountains are a major mountain group in Antarctica over 320 km long. Located in Victoria Land, they run north-south between the Priestley and Ferrar glaicers....
, Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It was named for its squat black appearance (see black pudding) by the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey 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.