Holder Peak

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Holder Peak is a 140-meter-high peak on a rock outcrop in Antarctica. It lies about 4 km east of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the Ingrid Christensen Coast, Princess Elizabeth Land, at coordinates 69°44′30″S 74°31′13″E. Norwegian cartographers mapped it from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936–37; nearby Young Peak was called Tvillingfjel (Twin Mountains). In 1963, an Australian ANARE party from Davis Station, led by Bill Young, fixed the peak’s position by triangulation. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it Holder Peak in honor of James Holder, a Davis Station weather observer and ANARE field member in 1963.