Reade Peak
| Reade Peak | ||
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| height | 1060 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 6 ′ 6 ″ S , 63 ° 28 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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The Reade Peak is a 1060 m high mountain on the Danco coast of the West Antarctic Graham Land . It rises 1.5 km south of Sonia Point and the Bay of Flanders .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801–1870), a British photography pioneer who in 1837 produced photographs on paper coated with silver nitrate , developed with bile acid and fixed with sodium dithionate .
Web links
- Reade Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reade Peak on geographic.org (English)