Black Peak (South Georgia)

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Black Peak
height 806  m
location South Georgia
Coordinates 54 ° 20 ′ 2 ″  S , 36 ° 18 ′ 5 ″  W Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 2 ″  S , 36 ° 18 ′ 5 ″  W
Black Peak (South Georgia) (South Georgia)
Black Peak (South Georgia)

The Black Peak ( English for black tip ) is a 806  m high and rocky mountain on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . On the Barff Peninsula, it rises west of Ocean Harbor at the southern end of the Szielasko Ice Cap .

Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1929 and named it descriptively.

Web links

  • Black Peak in the directory of peakery.com (English)
  • Black Peak . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)