Khufu Peak (71°20′S68°16′W / 71.333°S 68.267°W / -71.333; -68.267) is a peak rising to about 745 m located in Planet Heights, near the center of the Fossil Bluff massif, on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica, in which the east face of the peak faces towards George VI Sound and the George VI Ice Shelf. For many years this was known to British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers by the unofficial descriptive name "Pyramid," a name already in use. To avoid duplication, in 1987 the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) applied a new name after Khufu, the second Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, who erected the Great Pyramid of El Giza.
KhufuPeak (71°20′S 68°16′W / 71.333°S 68.267°W / -71.333; -68.267) is a peak rising to about 745 m located in Planet Heights, near the center of the...
Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Built c. 2600 BC...
nautical miles (0.6 km) across formed between Drune Hill to the north and KhufuPeak to the south on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was...
(3,000 ft) situated just over 1 nautical mile (2 km) west-northwest of KhufuPeak and 0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) west of Pearce Dome, situated on the east...
230 ft), and located about 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) north of KhufuPeak, separated from it by Khufu Corrie, and about 0.5 nautical miles northeast of Pearce...
nautical miles (1.3 km) south-southeast of KhufuPeak and 0.9 nautical miles (1.7 km) southwest of Giza Peak. Uranus Glacier forms the southern boundary...
Giza Peak to this feature in reference to the site of the colossal statue of the Sphinx at El Giza, Egypt. Gluck PeakKhufuPeak Oberon Peak "Giza Peak"....
Committee for Gustav Holst, the English composer. Mussorgsky PeaksKhufuPeak Oberon Peak "Holst Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological...
pyramid-building, and the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, who constructed the pyramids at Giza. Egypt attained its first sustained peak of civilization during...
nautical miles (0.9 km) west-northwest of KhufuPeak and 0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) due east of Blodwen Peak, situated on the east coast of Alexander...
Kawaki Malakal, just below the Sobat River, is 924 m3/s (32,600 cu ft/s); the peak flow is approximately 1,218 m3/s (43,000 cu ft/s) in October and minimum...
more ... As this system dates back at least to Khufu's reign, that means that during the time of Khufu, ancient Egyptians knew how to move huge blocks...
Sneferu, mother of Khufu Meritites I, wife of Khufu, mother of Kawab, Baufra, Djedefhor and Meresankh II Henutsen, second wife of Khufu, mother of Khufukhaf...
continued in America. The production of wicker rocking chairs reached its peak in America during the middle of the 18th century. The art nouveau school...
earth, i.e. at ground level or below, and this leads him to conclude that Khufu was interred in an ingeniously concealed cave whose entrance is today sealed...
floors Blocks of basalt made up the floor of the funerary temple east of Khufu's Great Pyramid 11.5 km long, paved quarry road connecting Widan el-Faras...
and largest city; El Mahalla El Kubra; Giza, the site of the Pyramid of Khufu; Hurghada; Luxor; Kom Ombo; Port Safaga; Port Said; Sharm El Sheikh; Suez...
period of unprecedented prosperity and splendour, when Egypt reached the peak of its artistic and international power, and as such he is considered one...
entirely in Old Akkadian dating from c. 2500 BC. Use of Old Akkadian was at its peak during the rule of Sargon the Great (c. 2334–2279 BC), but even then most...
of the papyri, Tallet believes that at least some workers in the time of Khufu were highly skilled and well rewarded for their labor, contradicting the...
Actium in 31 BC between the forces of Augustus and Mark Antony marked the peak of the Roman fleet arm. After Augustus' victory at Actium, most of the Roman...
Arabian Peninsula.[page needed] The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests by its founder...
building sailboats. A remarkable example of their shipbuilding skills was the Khufu ship, a vessel 143 feet (44 m) in length entombed at the foot of the Great...
the publication of academic research into cryptography; for example, the Khufu and Khafre block ciphers were voluntarily withheld in response to an NSA...
(3559–2590). The Flood began. Shem was 97, Noah 600 years old. See Fourth Dynasty of Egypt Pharaoh Khufu (reigned c. 2589–2566 BC) Genesis 5:27 Genesis 7:11...
Jemdet Nasr period to 90 hectares in the Early Dynastic period and then peaking in the Ur III period at 108 hectares and the Isin-Larsa period at 140 hectares...
Global Information