Tournachon Peak
| Tournachon Peak | ||
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| height | 860 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 19 ′ 49 ″ S , 61 ° 3 ′ 16 ″ W | |
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The Tournachon Peak is a 860 m high mountain on the Danco Coast of the West Antarctic Graham Lands . It rises south of Spring Point and Brialmont Bay .
Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1956 to 1957 were used for mapping by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1960 after the French photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, better known under his pseudonym Nadar (1820-1910), who made the first aerial photographs from a tethered balloon in 1858 and suggested them for mapping .
Web links
- Tournachon Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tournachon Peak on geographic.org (English)