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==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== | ||
It was discovered by Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] on the [[South Pole]] Flight of November 28–29, 1929, and mapped in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn. | It was discovered by Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] on the [[South Pole]] Flight of November 28–29, 1929, and mapped in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under [[Quin Blackburn]]. | ||
The peak was so-named in an attempt to reconcile Byrd's discoveries with the names applied by [[Roald Amundsen]] in 1911. Amundsen had named a peak in the general vicinity for Hjalmar Johansen, a member of the Eastern Sledge Party of his 1910–12 expedition. | The peak was so-named in an attempt to reconcile Byrd's discoveries with the names applied by [[Roald Amundsen]] in 1911. Amundsen had named a peak in the general vicinity for Hjalmar Johansen, a member of the Eastern Sledge Party of his 1910–12 expedition. | ||