Garcie Peaks
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 32 ′ S , 66 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Garcie Peaks are a group of three up to 960 m high mountains in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise 8 km southeast of Mount Leo on the southern flank of the Fleming Glacier .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in December 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them on August 31, 1962 after the French navigator and cartographer Pierre Garcie-Ferrande (1430-1502), whose work Le grand routier et pilotage from 1483 is the first manual on navigation with illustrations for coastal recognition.
Web links
- Garcie peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Garcie Peaks on geographic.org (English)