Sierra DuFief
| Sierra DuFief | ||
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| Highest peak | Luigi Peak ( 1415 m ) | |
| location | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W | |
The Sierra DuFief is a 6 km long mountain range in the southern part of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago . It runs in a northeast-southwest direction and is characterized by numerous pointed and up to 1,415 m high peaks.
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) discovered him. The expedition leader Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery named it after Jean DuFief, General Secretary of the Société Royale Belge de Géographie (freely translated: Royal Belgian Geographical Society ).
Web links
- Sierra DuFief in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sierra DuFief on geographic.org (English)