Swift Peak
| Swift Peak | ||
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| height | 935 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 18 '8 " S , 63 ° 7' 27" W | |
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The Swift Peak is a 935 m high mountain on the Foyn coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the highest point of an undulating, mostly snow-covered mountain range of hills at the northern end of the Churchill Peninsula .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1947. In the same year aerial photographs were taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after the Irish writer Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), whose novel Gulliver's Travels gave its name to several objects in the area.
Web links
- Swift peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swift Peak on geographic.org (English)