Peregrinus Peak
| Peregrinus Peak | ||
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| height | 1915 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 7 ′ 36 ″ S , 65 ° 53 ′ 2 ″ W | |
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The Peregrine Peak is a 1,915 m high mountain in Graham Land in the center of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km southeast of Mount Timosthenes on the northern flank of the Airy Glacier .
The first aerial photographs of this mountain were taken on November 27, 1947 as part of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in December 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after the French scholar Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt , who was the first to describe the polarity of magnets in his treatise Epistola de magnete in 1269 .
Web links
- Peregrinus Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peregrinus Peak on geographic.org (English)