Una peaks
| Una peaks | ||
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 Cape Renard with the Una Peaks |
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| location | Renard Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 1 ′ S , 63 ° 47 ′ W | |
| rock | basalt | |
The Una Peaks are two to 747 m high, lace and snow-capped mountains of basalt on Renard Iceland west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise south of Cape Renard at the entrance to the Lemaire Channel .
The twin mountains are a striking landmark and were used in particular for orientation by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey from around 1955. Among mountaineers they are also known as Cape Renard Towers (English for Cape Renard Towers ) and Una's Tits (English for Una's breasts ). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2008 after Irene Una Spivey (née Sedgwick, * 1931), a member of the staff of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in Stanley .
The first ascent of the eastern summit was achieved by the two Canadians Jia Condon and Rich Prohaska between February 1 and 4, 1997. The higher western summit was climbed for the first time by a German team around two years later.
Web links
- Una Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Una Peaks on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1611 (English).