Valiente Peak
| Valiente Peak | ||
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| height | 2165 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 27 ′ 7 ″ S , 63 ° 43 ′ 18 ″ W | |
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The Valiente Peak ( French Sommet Saens Valiente ) is an approximately 2165 m high mountain on the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises immediately north of the mouth of the Lever Glacier in Beascochea Bay .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered him. Charcot named him after the hydrograph and later Admiral Juan Pablo Sáenz Valiente (1861-1925), from 1910 Argentine Minister of the Navy. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (19341937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it again during surveys of Beascochea Bay in August 1935 and during a trip to the Trooz Glacier in January 1936. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred Charcot's name in 1959 in an abbreviated form in English.
Web links
- Valiente Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Valiente Peak on geographic.org (English)