Jardine Peak
| Jardine Peak | ||
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| height | 285 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ S , 58 ° 29 ′ 55 ″ W | |
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The Jardine Peak is a 285 m high mountain on King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 1.5 km southwest of Point Thomas on the southern bank of the Ezcurra Fjord .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the geologist Daniel Jardine (1927-1994), who was stationed in Admiralty Bay in 1949 for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and had explored King George Island extensively.
Web links
- Jardine Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jardine Peak on geographic.org (English)