Davies top
| Davies top | ||
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| height | 2360 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Wakefield Highland | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 19 '27 " S , 64 ° 47' 4" W | |
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The Davies Top is a 2360 m high, prominent and isolated mountain in the northern Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the west side of Wakefield Highland near the head end of the Lurabee Glacier .
Aerial photographs were taken on December 22, 1947 during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1946–1947). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) surveyed the mountain in November 1960. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after Antony Graham Davies (* 1934), FIDS doctor on Horseshoe Island and Stonington Island in 1960.
Web links
- Davies Top in Names Geographic Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davies Top on geographic.org (English)