Burro Peaks
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| location | Dee Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 26 ′ S , 59 ° 47 ′ W | |
The Burro Peaks (in Chile Picos Orejas de Burro , English for dog-eared tips ) are 190 m high twin peaks on Dee Island in the English Strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .
Participants of the 17th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1962–1963) gave them their descriptive name. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated the original name into English in 1978.
Web links
- Burro peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burro Peaks on geographic.org (English)