Napier Peak

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Napier Peak
View from Mount Friesland to the Hurd Peninsula with Napier Peak (right in front)

View from Mount Friesland to the Hurd Peninsula with Napier Peak (right in front)

height 340  m
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates 62 ° 40 ′ 19 ″  S , 60 ° 19 ′ 6 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 40 ′ 19 ″  S , 60 ° 19 ′ 6 ″  W
Napier Peak (South Shetland Islands)
Napier Peak

The Napier peak is about 340  m high mountain on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises on the western flank of the Huntress Glacier near the head of False Bay .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1990 after Captain William Napier, skipper of the schooner Venus from New York , who operated in the waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821.

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