Moore's Peak

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Moore's Peak
View of the Hurd Peninsula with Napier Peak, Cerro Mirador and Moores Peak (from right to left)

View of the Hurd Peninsula with Napier Peak , Cerro Mirador and Moores Peak ( from right to left )

height 370  m
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates 62 ° 41 '14 "  S , 60 ° 20' 3"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 41 '14 "  S , 60 ° 20' 3"  W.
Moores Peak (South Shetland Islands)
Moore's Peak

The Moores Peak is a mountain about 370  m high on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It towers on the west bank and near the head of False Bay on the Hurd Peninsula .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1990 Captain Prince B. Moores (1800 – after 1850), ship's master of the George Porter from Nantucket , who operated between 1821 and 1822 in the waters around the South Shetland Islands.

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