Liebig Peak

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Liebig Peak
height 2245  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains Protector Heights
Coordinates 66 ° 46 ′ 10 ″  S , 66 ° 0 ′ 55 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 46 ′ 10 ″  S , 66 ° 0 ′ 55 ″  W
Liebig Peak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Liebig Peak

The Liebig Peak is a 2,245  m high mountain of Protector Heights on the Loubet Coast belonging Pernik Peninsula of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . The mountain is clearly visible from both Darbel Bay and Lallemand Fjord .

Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803–1873).

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