Pete's Pillar
| Pete's Pillar | ||
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| Waters | Neptunes Bellows | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 59 ′ S , 60 ° 33 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 45 m | |
Petes Pillar is a 45 m high surf pillar in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises just 520 m east of Fildes Point on the north side of Neptunes Bellows , the entrance to Port Foster on Deception Island .
Probably this was highly visible landmark already the first sealers in the waters around the South Shetland island known. It appears for the first time on a map by Lieutenant Edward Nicholas Kendall (1800-1845) of the Royal Navy , who carried out the first survey of Deception Island between January and March 1829 on the Antarctic voyage of HMS Chanticleer (1827-1831). It is named after the pilot Peter Borden "Pete" St. Louis (1924-2010) of the Royal Canadian Air Force , who was in action for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1949 to 1950 .
Web links
- Petes Pillar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Petes Pillar on geographic.org (English)