Enigma Peak

Enigma Peak
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height	1000 m
location	Rothschild Island , West Antarctica
Mountains	Desko Mountains
Coordinates	69 ° 33 ′ 41 ″ S , 72 ° 39 ′ 39 ″ W Coordinates: 69 ° 33 ′ 41 ″ S , 72 ° 39 ′ 39 ″ W

The Enigma Peak (English for Mysteriumsspitze ) is a 1000 m high mountain on the West Antarctic Rothschild Island . It rises from the Fournier Ridge ridge in the Desko Mountains .

The German-Baltic navigator Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen sighted the mountain possibly in 1821 during his trip to the Antarctic (1819–1821). The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot saw him probably in 1909 as part of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910), as did participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Aerial photographs were taken during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). This was used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for a mapping. This was made more precise on the basis of Landsat recordings from 1975. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it so in 1961, as its identification was associated with a great deal of effort.

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