Stokes peaks
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| location | Adelaide Island , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 25 ′ S , 68 ° 7 ′ W | |
The Stokes Peaks are a group of up to over 900 m high mountains on the Adelaide Island in the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They loom between McCallum Pass and Sighing Peak on the north side of the Wright Peninsula .
Aerial photographs were taken between 1956 and 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1961 and 1962. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountains in 1977 after Jeffrey Colin Albert Stokes (* 1935), assistant geodesist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in Admiralty Bay (1959-1960) and on Adelaide Island (1960-1961).
Web links
- Stokes peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stokes Peaks on geographic.org (English)