Mount Pénaud

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Mount Pénaud
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height 1050  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 64 ° 6 '8 "  S , 60 ° 52' 31"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 6 '8 "  S , 60 ° 52' 31"  W
Mount Pénaud (Antarctic Peninsula)
Mount Pénaud

Mount Pénaud (in Chile Monte Barrera ) is a 1050  m high mountain east-southeast of Cape Sterneck on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .

The British Antarctic traveler Henry Foster mapped it roughly during his trip with the HMS Chanticleer (1828–1831) in January 1829 and named it as Mount Herschel after the British astronomer John Herschel (1792–1871). Aerial photographs were taken between 1956 and 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee changed its name in 1960. The new namesake is the French aircraft designer Alphonse Pénaud (1850–1880). The further background of the Chilean naming is not known.

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