Snipe Peak

Snipe Peak
	Map of the South Orkney Islands with Moe Island and Snipe Peak (center)
height	226 m
location	Moe Island , South Orkney Islands
Coordinates	60 ° 44 ′ 10 ″ S , 45 ° 40 ′ 41 ″ W Coordinates: 60 ° 44 ′ 10 ″ S , 45 ° 40 ′ 41 ″ W

At 226 m, Snipe Peak is the highest mountain on Moe Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands .

Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out initial surveys in 1933. It was named at the suggestion of Gordon de Quetteville Robin (1921-2004) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey after measurements carried out by him in 1947. HMS Snipe , a sloop of the Royal Navy , which Moe Island first called in February 1948, is named after it .

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