Hoskins Peak

Hoskins Peak
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height	900  m
location	Pourquoi-Pas Island , West Antarctica
Coordinates	67 ° 45 ′ 5 ″  S , 67 ° 31 ′ 24 ″  W Coordinates: 67 ° 45 ′ 5 ″  S , 67 ° 31 ′ 24 ″  W

The Hoskins peak is approximately 900  m high mountain in the southern part of the Pourquoi Pas Island before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 miles west of Contact Peak .

Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from 1956 to 1959 were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British geologist Arthur Keith Hoskins (* 1935), who worked for the FIDS in 1958 on Stonington Island and in 1959 on Horseshoe Island .

Web links

• Hoskins peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Hoskins Peak on geographic.org (English)