Sighing Peak
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,_Adelaide_Island,_Stonehouse_Bay.JPG) Sighing Peak (front left) |
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| height | 640 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 23 '55 " S , 67 ° 58' 47" W | |
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The Sighing Peak ( English for the tip of a sigh ) is a striking, isolated and 640 m high mountain on the Punta Cholchol on the east coast of the Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the south side of the entrance to Stonehouse Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered it and roughly mapped it. A new mapping was carried out in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). He named the mountain after the sustained wind that develops from the summit of the mountain to a light breeze at sea level.
Web links
- Sighing Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sighing Peak on geographic.org (English)