Lewis Peaks
| Lewis Peaks | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 15 ′ S , 67 ° 31 ′ W | |
The Lewis Peaks are two 1065 m high mountains on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . To the west of the Arrowsmith Peninsula, they rise 5 km east of Day Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out a rough mapping in 1909. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named them after a new mapping in 1948 after John Harding Lewis (1922-1990) of the Royal Air Force , who had undertaken reconnaissance flights to the ice conditions in Marguerite Bay with an Auster Aircraft in February 1950 .
Web links
- Lewis peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lewis Peaks on geographic.org (English)