Johnston Peak () is a sharp dark

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)-d ...

in Antarctica, north of

Mount Marr Mount Marr () is a rock peak which rises above the surrounding ice surface south of Johnston Peak and west of Douglas Peak, in Enderby Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in January 1930 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research E ...

and northwest of

Douglas Peak Douglas Peak () is a peak in Antarctica, high, lying 11 nautical miles (20 km) southwest of Mount Codrington and 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of Mount Marr. It was discovered in January 1930 by the British Australian New Zealand Ant ...

. It was discovered in January 1930 by the

British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, d ...

under

Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...

, who named it for Professor

Thomas Harvey Johnston Thomas Harvey Johnston (9 December 1881 – 30 August 1951) was an Australian biologist and parasitologist. He championed the efforts to eradicate the invasive Opuntia, prickly pear. Life and times Johnston was born in 1881 at Balmain, Sydney, ...

, the chief biologist to the expedition.

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* Mountains of Enderby Land {{EnderbyLand-geo-stub

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