Flinders Peak
| Flinders Peak | ||
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| height | 960 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Bristly Peaks | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 19 '55 " S , 66 ° 40' 28" W | |
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The Flinders Peak is a 960 m high and striking triangular mountain at the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises above the Forster Piedmont Glacier at the western end of the Bristly Peaks .
He was photographed in February 1937 with the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) and in December 1947 with the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The geodetic survey was carried out in December 1958 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1962 after the British explorer Matthew Flinders (1774 to 1814), of the reason for the declination of magnetic compasses discovered and worked from 1805 to 1814 to find a solution to this problem.
Web links
- Flinders Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flinders Peak on geographic.org (English)