Blechnum Peaks () are three peaks, the highest high, on the north–south ridge between
Gulbrandsen Lake and
Olsen Valley on the north coast of
South Georgia. They were named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
, following
British Antarctic Survey biological work in the area, after the rare fern ''
Blechnum penna-marina
''Austroblechnum penna-marina'', synonym ''Blechnum penna-marina'', known as Antarctic hard-fern, alpine water fern and pinque (Chilean Spanish), is a species of fern in the family Blechnaceae, with a natural range from the Araucanía Region to t ...
'', whose occurrence in South Georgia is known only from the north and east slopes of these peaks and from the adjacent Olsen Valley.
References
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Mountains and hills of South Georgia
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