Puppis Pikes
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 17 ′ S , 66 ° 23 ′ W | |
The Puppis Pikes are a loose group of pointed nunatakkers and small rocky outcrops of up to 1350 m in the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise in an east-west orientation 11 km northeast of Mount Cadbury .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after the constellation aft deck of the ship ( Puppis in Latin ).
Web links
- Puppis Pikes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Puppis Pikes on geographic.org (English)