Barker Peak () is a
peak west-northwest of
Mount Terror on
Ross Island
Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound. Ross Island lies within the boundaries of Ross Dependency, an area of Antarctica claimed by New ...
. The feature rises to about and is the western of two peaks near the south end of the
Giggenbach Ridge
Mount Terror is a large shield volcano that forms the eastern part of Ross Island, Antarctica. It has numerous cinder cones and domes on the flanks of the shield and is mostly under snow and ice. It is the second largest of the four volcanoes ...
. It was named in 2000 by the
New Zealand Geographic Board after Major
James R. M. Barker, officer in command at
Scott Base, 1970–71, and a
New Zealand Antarctic Programme
The New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme (NZARP) was a research program that operated a permanent research facility in Antarctica from 1959 to 1996. It was created by the Geophysics Division of New Zealand's Department of Scientific and Indust ...
manager, 1970–86.
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References
Mountains of Ross Island
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