Needle Peak
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Pico Característico
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 View from Bransfield Street to Needle Peak |
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| height | 370 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 43 '35 " S , 60 ° 9' 58" W | |
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 Map of the Tangra Mountains with Needle Peak |
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The Needle Peak ( English for needle tip ; in Argentina Pico Característico Spanish for unmistakable mountain ) is a 370 m high, black and pointed mountain on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises on the west bank of Brunow Bay on the south coast of the island.
The British navigator James Weddell named it in 1825 as Barnards Peak after Charles Barnard (1781-1840), captain of the sealer Charity of New York, which operated off the South Shetland Islands from 1820 to 1821 . However, this name did not catch on and is now used instead in the form of Barnard Point . Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations gave the mountain its descriptive name.
In the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , the Needle Peak and the Pico Característico are listed separately from each other. However, the location and the name of the object clearly indicate that it is the same mountain.
Web links
- Needle Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Needle Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Característico, pico in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English, accessed on May 10, 2019).