Angel peaks
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 31 ′ S , 63 ° 7 ′ W | |
The Engel Peaks are a group of three up to 1460 m high mountains on the Wilkins coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are distributed 24 km west of Cape Rymill in a northwest-southeast orientation over a length of 6 km.
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins photographed them from the air in 1928. Further aerial photographs were taken during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), whose participants also explored them on a dog sled excursion along the Wilkins Coast. They were spotted again at the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948), whose expedition leader Finn Ronne made the naming. It is named after Bud Engel, head of Albert Richard , a subsidiary of the clothing manufacturer Fried-Ostermann from Milwaukee , which provided Ronnes Expedition winter clothing.
Web links
- Angel peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Engel Peaks on geographic.org (English)