Precious peaks
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 5 ′ S , 58 ° 18 ′ W | |
The Precious Peaks (in Chile Promontorio Negro Notable , Spanish for Striking Black Promontory ) are three mountains of dark rock on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They tower on the northeast bank of Martel Inlet .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the meteorologist Alan Precious (* 1926), who worked for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in Hope Bay in 1954 and 1955 and in Admiralty Bay in 1957 .
Web links
- Precious peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Precious Peaks on geographic.org (English)