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==Northern features== [[File:Mt Erebus, Antarctica (ASTER).jpg|thumb|500px|Mt Erebus, Antarctica]] Features on the northern slopes include: ===Abbott Peak=== {{coord|77|26|S|167|00|E}}. Pyramidal peak on the north side of Mount Erebus, between it and Mount Bird. Charted by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott, 1910-13, and named for Petty Officer George P. Abbott, Royal Navy, a member of the expedition.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=1}} ===Krall Crags=== {{coord|-77.454003|166.815833}}. Two rock summits rising to over {{convert|1400|m}} high on the northwest slope of [[Mount Erebus]]. The feature is {{convert|1.2|nmi}} west-northwest of Abbott Peak. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2000) after Sarah Krall who worked over 10 years in providing support to science in Antarctica. She was cook and camp manager at the [[lower Erebus Hut]] during the 1992-93 NSF-NASA Dante robot experiment on Mount Erebus. She also managed the food room at McMurdo Station, was the hovercraft pilot, and has also been a helicopter technician.{{sfn|Krall Crags USGS}} ===Tarr Nunatak=== {{coord|-77.478006|166.888183}} A nunatak rising to about {{convert|1700|m}} high on the northwest slope of Mount Erebus. The feature is {{convert|1.2|nmi}} south-southwest of Abbott Peak. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) (2000) after Sergeant L.W. (Wally) Tarr, Royal New Zealand Air Force, aircraft mechanic with the New Zealand contingent of the [[Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] (CTAE), 1956-58.{{sfn|Tarr Nunatak USGS}} ===Fang Ridge=== {{coord|77|29|S|167|12|E}}. A conspicuous ridge on the northeast slope of Mount Erebus. It is a much denuded portion of the original caldera rim left by a catastrophic eruption. So named, probably for its curved shape, by Frank Debenham of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, who made a plane table survey in 1912.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=232}} === The Fang=== {{coord|-77.485943|167.203614}}. A distinctive toothlike peak, {{convert|3159|m}} high, which forms the highest point of Fang Ridge. Descriptively named by Frank Debenham of British Antarctic Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition), 1910-13, who made a plane table survey of the vicinity in 1912.{{sfn|The Fang USGS}} === Millennium Peak=== {{coord|-77.506569|167.381754}}. A peak rising to about {{convert|1800|m}} high on the northeast slope of Mount Erebus, {{convert|4|nmi}} east-northeast of the Erebus summit. So named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in the millennium year 2000.{{sfn|Millennium Peak USGS}} === Coleman Peak=== {{coord|-77.488132|167.477419}}. A peak rising to about {{convert|1600|m}} high on the northeast slope of Mount Erebus, {{convert|3.6|nmi}} east of the summit of Fang Ridge. Named by the New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) (2000) after Father Coleman, a New Zealand chaplain, who traveled to Antarctica many times with the United States Antarctic Program.{{sfn|Coleman Peak USGS}} === Te Puna Roimata Peak=== {{coord|-77.447407|167.561469}}. A peak about {{convert|890|m}} high, located {{convert|1.5|nmi}} west of [[Terra Nova Glacier]] and {{convert|2|nmi}} south of [[Lewis Bay]] on the lower northeast slope of Mount Erebus. On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft on a scenic flight from Auckland crashed near this peak claiming the lives of 237 passengers from eight countries and a crew of 20. In 1987, a stainless steel memorial cross was erected west of the peak. Te Puna Roimata Peak (meaning spring of tears) was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) in 2000.{{sfn|Te Puna Roimata Peak USGS}}
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