Basilisk Peak

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Basilisk Peak
height 253  m
location Bellingshausen Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Coordinates 59 ° 24 '35 "  S , 27 ° 4' 54"  W Coordinates: 59 ° 24 '35 "  S , 27 ° 4' 54"  W.
Basilisk Peak (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Basilisk Peak

At 253  m, Basilisk Peak is the highest point on the crater rim of Bellingshausen Island in the chain of the South Sandwich Islands .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1971 because the crater "[...] exudes the aura as if the mythical basilisk had its cave there".

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