Creswick Peaks
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 View from George VI Sound to the Creswick Peaks |
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 29 ′ S , 67 ° 41 ′ W | |
The Creswick Peaks are an imposing massif with several peaks up to 1465 m high on the Rymill coast in the west of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . The massif rises at the northeastern end of Moore Point between the Naess Glacier and the Meiklejohn Glacier 5 km inland from George VI Sound .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out a first survey in 1936. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountains in 1954 Frances Elizabeth Creswick (1907-2002), Deputy Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute from 1931 to 1938, who was involved in the preparatory work for the British Graham Land Expedition.
Web links
- Creswick Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Creswick Peaks on geographic.org (English)