Talk:List of mountains of East Antarctica

Comment
This is a reminder to myself (or a request for someone else) to please add a page describing the Queen Maud Land Coast ranges and Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains.DiverDave (talk) 14:11, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Merge to East Antarctic two-thousanders
I am going to undo this merge because the target article us up for deletion Articles for deletion/East Antarctic two-thousanders for reasons that do not apply to the present article. So far as I can see the merge was proposed but not discussed so I do not think this is going against consensus. Thincat (talk) 18:53, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Except for the title, the articles are more or less identical. - 4ing (talk) 21:47, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Possible AfD
I'm considereing nominating this article for deletion. The main source to the list, peakbagger.com, describes the term East Antarctica Ranges a "bogus mountain grouping for this site". Further, it says "Sub-peaks are excluded from this list", without stating any cut-off in prominence. The list is not complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included. The PBC Database might fail RELIABLE, and the availablility of accurate data for this region is very limited, making the list arbitrary. - 4ing (talk) 09:40, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: 'moved to "List of mountains of East Antarctica". There was no support for the current page name and no agreement on the limit of the page. DrKiernan (talk) 08:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

East Antarctica Ranges → List of mountains of East Antarctica above 3000 m – East Antarctica Ranges is a constructed term. The main source to the list, peakbagger.com, describes the term East Antarctica Ranges a "bogus mountain grouping for this site". From the text, it is appears as all mountains in East Antarcitca is part of a common range. Before I started expanding the list (21 January 2013), the article said "The East Antarctica Ranges, located on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, have 29 known peaks whose summits reach or exceed 2000 meters above sea level. These peaks are collectively referred to as the East Antarctic two-thousanders." East Antarctic two-thousanders is redirected here after a deletion dicussion. I suggest that the list is limited to peaks above 3000 m.a.s.l., as the sub division List of mountains of Queen Maud Land contains more than 400 mountains above 2000 m. This will probably limit the list to approximately 20-30 peaks after adding missing peaks. The proposed name is inherited from List of mountains of the Alps above 3000 m. 4ing (talk) 11:56, 22 February 2013 (UTC) - 4ing (talk) 11:56, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how wise it is to limit this list to 3000m mountains just because that's the standard used for the Alps. If sources really refer to these peaks as "East Antarctic two-thousanders," that seems like a better guiding force. I understand you may be reluctant to do that after AfD, but the primary concern of that discussion—arbitrariness—isn't addressed by this change anyway. --BDD (talk) 20:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

At least three errors in list, very many omissions
Peak 3938 doesn't exist, all that exists at that location is an ice plateau 1000 metres lower. Mollwollfumble (talk) 03:58, 12 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I was wrong. East Antarctica does not include any of the Transantarctic Mountains and does include some mountains in the Western hemisphere. That being the case, the only error remaining is that Peak 3938 doesn't exist. Mollwollfumble (talk) 04:49, 12 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Peak 3938 is definitely not the only error in this list. Just compare this list to List of mountains of Queen Maud Land, a subset to this list. - 4ing (talk) 08:05, 12 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I've checked the original source for Peak 3938 and found that the location is West, not East, which moves it out of East Antarctica and puts it exactly at the high point of the Nilsen Plateau in the west. Will check Queen Maud Land and elsewhere. There's a lot of information on Mountains in Antarctica with locations (most without reliable altitudes) on the Australian Antarctic Territory website. Unfortunately, I don't see any topographic maps from the US Geological Survey http://usarc.usgs.gov/drg_dload.shtml that include any part of East Antarctica. Mollwollfumble (talk) 23:17, 13 December 2016 (UTC)