The Bristly Peaks () are a series of sharp, rock peaks on a ridge separating

Seller Glacier Seller Glacier is a well-defined glacier, 20 nautical miles (37 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide flowing westward into Forster Ice Piedmont, western Antarctic Peninsula, just north of Flinders Peak. Roughly surveyed by British Gr ...

and

Fleming Glacier Fleming Glacier () is a broad glacier long on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, flowing west-northwest and terminating in Forster Ice Piedmont to the east of the Wordie Ice Shelf. The glacier was charted by the British Graham Land Expediti ...

in the central

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. They were photographed from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937, and by the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

in 1947. They were surveyed by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...

in 1958 and 1960. The name, applied 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 ...

, is descriptive of the sharp peaks which suggest the bristles of a brush. The Bristly Peaks include the

Messent Peak Messent Peak () is one of the Bristly Peaks, rising to about just west of Brodie Peak and southwest of Mount Castro in the central Antarctic Peninsula. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarcti ...

and the

Brodie Peak Brodie Peak () is one of the Bristly Peaks, rising to south-southeast of Mount Castro, in the central Antarctic Peninsula. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1977 after Earl E. Brodie, a United States Antarctic Research ...

References

* Mountains of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub