Block Peak
The Grosvenor Mountains are a group of widely scattered mountains and nunataks rising above the Antarctic polar plateau east of the head of Mill Glacier, extending from Mount Pratt in the north to the Mount Raymond area in the south, and from Otway Massif in the northwest to Larkman Nunatak in the southeast.Block Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,770 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-85.68333° or 85° 41′ south
Longitude
176.21667° or 176° 13′ east
Elevation
2,770 metres (9,088 feet)
Named after
William Block
Open location code
2V6R8688+MM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Block Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Block Peak (tumoy sa bukid sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “Block Peak”
- Chinese: “布洛克峰”
- Dutch: “Block Peak”
- German: “Block Peak”
- Italian: “Block Peak”
- Ladin: “Block Peak”
- Low German: “Block Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Block Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Block Peak”
- Swedish: “Block Peak (bergstopp i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Block Peak”
- Venetian: “Block Peak”
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