Alencar Peak
| Alencar Peak | ||
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| height | 1555 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 24 '33 " S , 63 ° 53' 21" W | |
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The Alencar Peak (English; French Sommet de Alencar , Spanish Pico Alencar ) is a 1555 m high mountain on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Kiev Peninsula, it rises 10 km east of Cape Pérez . It is the northwesternmost of the peaks of a mountain ridge that separates Trooz Glacier from Beascochea Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910), led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, discovered the mountain in October 1908. Charcot named it after Admiral Alexandrino Faria de Alencar (1848–1926), Brazil’s naval minister at the time . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1950.
Web links
- Alencar peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alencar Peak on geographic.org (English)