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Mount Creak () is a sharp peak, high, just north of
Shoulder Mountain Shoulder Mountain is a prominent, triangular rock buttress over 1,000 m, on the north side of the lower Fry Glacier and close south of Mount Creak in Victoria Land. It was mapped and given this descriptive name by the 1957 New Zealand Norther ...
in the south end of the
Kirkwood Range The Kirkwood Range () is a massive coastal mountain range in Antarctica, extending north–south between Fry Glacier and Mawson Glacier. A broad low-level platform on the seaward side of the range is occupied by the Oates Piedmont Glacier. It was ...
. It was discovered by the
British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04 The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–184 ...
, which named this peak for Captain E.W. Creak, Director of Compasses at the
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* Mountains of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub