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Moores Peak

Moores Peak is the prominent rocky peak rising to 407 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting False Bay to the southeast.

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The feature is named after Captain Prince Moores, Master of the American sealing ship George Porter that visited the South Shetlands in 1821-22.

Location

The peak is located at 62°41′21″S 60°20′37″W which is 880 m south by west of Mirador Hill, 2.2 km south-southwest of Napier Peak, 4.47 km west by north of Kikish Crag and 2.21 km east-northeast of Castellvi Peak (British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

  • Isla Livingston: Península Hurd. Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25 000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
  • L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

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    Moores Peak Wikipedia
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