Boulton Peak
| Boulton Peak | ||
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| height | 1250 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 7 ′ 31 ″ S , 60 ° 41 ′ 38 ″ W | |
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The Boulton Peak is a 1,250 m high mountain on the Davis Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 8 km south of Cape Andrew on the southeast side of Curtiss Bay .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. created between 1955 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain on September 23, 1960 after the British inventor Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (1820-1894), who in 1868 developed the aileron for flight control .
Web links
- Boulton Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boulton Peak on geographic.org (English)