Birchall Peaks
| Birchall Peaks | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 29 ′ S , 146 ° 20 ′ W | |
 Map sheet Guest Peninsula from 1969 (reprint 1988), Birchall Peaks at the base of the peninsula, in the middle of the eastern half of the map |
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The Birchall Peaks are a group of mountain peaks on the Ruppert coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Ford Ranges they tower about 5 km west of Mount Iphigene on the south side of Block Bay .
They were discovered during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named her Frederick Thomas Birchall (1871–1955), a New York Times employee who was responsible for publishing reports on the expedition.
Web links
- Birchall Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Birchall Peaks on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 164 (English).