Twin Peaks (Grahamland)
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 24 ′ S , 57 ° 8 ′ W | |
The Twin Peaks ( English for twin peaks ) are two defined mountain peaks of 730 m and 750 m height in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They tower 2.5 km north of Mount Taylor and 3 km west of the head end of Hope Bay on the northern reaches of the Trinity Peninsula .
They were discovered during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld . The descriptive naming was carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey after a survey of the area in 1946.
Web links
- Twin Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Twin Peaks on geographic.org (English)