Name StatusOfficial ValidatedFeatureMountainNZ Gazette Reference2012 (53) p.1477DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionA steep, conspicuous cone, about 975m high, lying on the south side of the Larsen Glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the NAE, 1901-04, which named this peak for Admiral Thaddeus von Bellingshausen. Bellingshausen, then a Captain, led a Russian expedition sent out by Emperor Alexander I in 1819-21, which discovered the first certain land in the Antarctic - Peter I Island and Alexander I Land - during a circuit of the world in the highest possible south latitudes, following the edge of the ice pack. Mt Bellinghausen.
