Staccato peaks
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 47 ′ S , 70 ° 33 ′ W | |
The Staccato Peaks are a series of rocky mountain peaks in the southern part of West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise with north-south orientation over a length of 18 km from a snowfield 32 km south of the Walton Mountains .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth saw this formation for the first time during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting aerial photographs were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for an initial mapping. A new mapping was carried out in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey based on aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The naming by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from 1961 is based on the musical articulation rule of staccato and thus describes the sudden and abrupt way in which the peaks rise from the snowfield surrounding them.
Web links
- Staccato Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Staccato Peaks on geographic.org (English)