Slump Mountain () is a
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km) southwest of
University Peak, rising to 2,195 m between the heads of
University Valley and
Farnell Valley Farnell Valley () is an ice-free valley, long, a tributary to Beacon Valley, descending to the latter from the southeast side, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for James B.H. Farnell, ...
in the
Quartermain Mountains
The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount F ...
,
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
. So named by
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board pl ...
(NZ-APC) following geological work carried out by
C.T. McElroy,
G. Rose, and
K.J. Whitby in the 1980–81 season. The face of the peak exhibits large-scale slump structures in the
Metschel Tillite zone.
Mountains of Victoria Land
Scott Coast
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