Vanni Peak

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Vanni Peak
height 1700  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains Dorsey Mountains
Coordinates 67 ° 5 ′ 6 ″  S , 67 ° 6 ′ 17 ″  W Coordinates: 67 ° 5 ′ 6 ″  S , 67 ° 6 ′ 17 ″  W
Vanni Peak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Vanni Peak

The Vanni peak is about 1,700  meters high mountain in the Loubet coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arrowsmith Peninsula looms 3 miles north of Mount Lagally in the Dorsey Mountains .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs from the years between 1956 and 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Italian hydrologist and glaciologist Manfredo Vanni (1898–1976).

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