Jerez Peak
| Jerez Peak | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Clarence Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Ravelin Ridge | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 13 '47 " S , 54 ° 6' 21" W | |
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The Jerez Peak (English; Bulgarian Връх Херес Wrach Cheres ) is a 1400 m high and icy mountain on Clarence Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 3 km north-northeast of Mount Llana and 5 km south of Humble Point at the southern end of the Ravelin Ridge . The Treskawez Glacier is northeast and the Highton Glacier is southeast of it. It is connected to Mount Llana via the Soyka Saddle .
British scientists mapped it in 1972 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the Spanish navigator Gregorio Jerez, who in 1756 after Anthony de la Roché had sighted South Georgia as the second and named it Isla San Pedro .
Web links
- Jerez Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)