Noble Peak
| Noble Peak | ||
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| height | 560 m | |
| location | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Comer Range | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 48 '26 " S , 63 ° 27' 6" W | |
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The Noble Peak ( French Pic Jabet ) is a 560 m (after British representation 720 m ) high mountain on the Wiencke Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It rises 1.5 km southwest of Lockley Point at the northeast end of the Comer Range .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered him. His name first appears on a map that dates back to 1927 surveys by the British Discovery Investigations . The naming background has not survived.
Web links
- Noble Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Noble Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1110 (English).