Hunt Peak
| Hunt Peak | ||
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| height | 610 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Hunt Peak is 610 meters high, three-sided mountain on the east coast of Adelaide Island . It marks the north side of the entrance to Stonehouse Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered it and roughly mapped it. A new mapping was carried out in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). He named the headland occupied by the mountain after Kenneth Dawson Hunt (1922-2007), mechanic of a Noorduyn Norseman of the FIDS in 1950. After measurements between 1957 and 1958, the FIDS transferred the name to the mountain described here.
Web links
- Hunt peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hunt Peak on geographic.org (English)