Olstad Peak

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Olstad Peak
South Georgia and
the South Sandwich Islands
Annenkov Island
Summit: 2,130 feet 54°28’60"S, 37°4’60"W

Olstad Peak is a hill on Annenkov Island off South Georgia. Its summit, at 2,130 feet, is the highest point on the island.

Olstad Peak was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ola Olstad, Norwegian zoologist, member of the Norwegian expedition under Harald Horntvedt, 1927–28, and chief scientist of the Norwegian expedition under Nils Larsen, 1928-29.

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