Brimstone Peak (South Shetland Islands)
| Brimstone Peak | ||
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| height | 120 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 55 '8 " S , 57 ° 45' 2" W | |
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The Brimstone Peak (English for sulfur tip ) is a distinctive and 120 m high mountain in the northeast of King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises from the rocky headland between Venus Bay and Emerald Cove .
The name North Foreland , which the British sealer captain George Powell (1794-1824) used on a map from 1822 for the mountain, has now been established for the neighboring headland North Foreland . The mountain was given its current descriptive name by participants in the British Discovery Investigations in 1937 because of the yellow color of its rock.
Web links
- Brimstone Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brimstone Peak on geographic.org (English)