Triune peaks
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 8 ′ S , 66 ° 50 ′ W | |
The Triune Peaks (English for Trinity Peaks ) are a group of three pointed and up to 1130 m high mountains on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise 19 km northeast of Mount Balfour on the edge of the Wordie Ice Shelf .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , roughly mapped these mountains between 1936 and 1937. A new mapping was carried out in November 1958 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Aerial photographs were taken in December 1947 during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them on August 31, 1962.
Web links
- Triune peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Triune Peaks on geographic.org (English)