Jason Peak
| Jason Peak | ||
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| height | 675 m | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 11 ′ 35 ″ S , 36 ° 37 ′ 11 ″ W | |
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The Jason Peak is a 675 m (according to British specifications 685 m ) high mountain on the north coast of South Georgia . It rises 1.5 km west of Jason Harbor .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations named it in 1929 after the name of Jason Harbor. Its namesake is the ship Jason , with which the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Carl Anton Larsen visited this bay on his Antarctic voyage from 1892 to 1894.
Web links
- Jason Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jason Peak on geographic.org (English)