Whitten Peak
| Whitten Peak | ||
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 View from Hope Bay to the confluence of Arena Glacier (center) and Whitten Peak (left) |
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| height | 445 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 24 ′ 24 ″ S , 57 ° 4 ′ 9 ″ W | |
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The Whitten Peak is a pyramid-shaped and 445 m high mountain in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Trinity Peninsula , it forms the northeastern end of Blade Ridge on the west bank of the head end of Hope Bay .
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld discovered him. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named him after Robert Wakeham Whitten (1908 - unknown), between 1944 and 1945 first mate on the Eagle in the second phase of Operation Tabarin .
Web links
- Whitten Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whitten Peak on geographic.org (English)