Chaigneau Peak
| Chaigneau Peak | ||
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| height | 760 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 12 '43 " S , 64 ° 1' 16" W | |
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The Chaigneau Peak ( French Pic Chaigneau ) is a 760 m high and pointed mountain on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises immediately southeast of Blanchard Ridge .
The first sighting of the mountain probably goes back to participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot made a check. Charcot named the mountain after Juan Federico Chaigneau, then governor of the province of Magallanes in Chile , who helped Charcot's research trip. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names converted the French name into English in 1951.
Web links
- Chaigneau Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chaigneau Peak on geographic.org (English)