Engrave peaks
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 13 ′ S , 67 ° 20 ′ W | |
The Gravier Peaks ( French Sommet Gravier ) are striking, icy and up to 2315 m high mountains on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arrowsmith Peninsula they rise 3 km northeast of the Lewis Peaks in a northeast-southwest orientation.
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out a rough mapping in 1903. Charcot named it after the French zoologist Charles Joseph Gravier (1865-1937), who belonged to the commission for the publication of the scientific results of the research trip. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in greater detail in 1948.
Web links
- Gravier peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gravier Peaks on geographic.org (English)