What is the highest peak in the Transantarctic Mountains, which divide Antarctica into its eastern and western geographic regions?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Mount Kirkpatrick (4,528 m)
- Step 1: Mount Kirkpatrick rises to 4,528 meters in the Queen Alexandra Range of the Transantarctic Mountains.
- Step 2: It is globally renowned in paleontology as one of Antarctica's most significant fossil sites, where the dinosaur Cryolophosaurus was discovered in 1991.
Answer
Mount Kirkpatrick (4,528 m)
Why not the others: 'Mount Markham' is the second-highest summit in the Transantarctics; 'Mount Vinson' is in the Sentinel Range (not the Transantarctic Mountains); 'Mount Erebus' is on Ross Island.
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