Kershaw Peaks
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 57 ′ S , 63 ° 8 ′ W | |
The Kershaw Peaks are a group of five up to 820 m high mountains on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise to the west of the mouth of the Miethe Glacier in Thomas Cove and east of Cape Willems .
They are first listed on an Argentine map from 1952. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after Dennis Kershaw (1931-2000), geodesist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at Arthur Harbor in 1956 and on Danco Island in thereon.
Web links
- Kershaw peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kershaw Peaks on geographic.org (English)