Jabet Peak
| Jabet Peak | ||
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| height | 545 m | |
| location | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Comer Range | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 48 '26 " S , 63 ° 27' 6" W | |
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The Jabet Peak ( French Pic Jabet ) is a 545 m high mountain on Wiencke Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It rises 1.5 km northeast of Port Lockroy at the southwest end of the Comer Range .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) discovered him. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named him after Jacques François Jabet, boatswain on the ship Français on this research trip . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the French name to English on November 21, 1949.
Web links
- Jabet Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jabet Peak on geographic.org (English)