MacGregor Peaks are rocky peaks rising to 350 m in the south part of

Hurd Peninsula Hurd Peninsula lies between South Bay and False Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The Spanish Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base and the Bulgarian St. Kliment Ohridski Base are situated on its west ...

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...

in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. The peaks are named after Captain Christopher MacGregor, Master of the British sealing vessel ''Minstrel'' that visited the South Shetlands in 1820–21.

Location

The peaks are centred at which is 710 m southwest of

Castellvi Peak Castellvi Peak ( bg, връх Кастелви, vrah Kastelvi, ) is a peak rising to 350 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island. Situated 800 m northeast of MacGregor Peaks and 1.4 km southwest of Dorotea Peak. Spanish early mapping in 1 ...

, 2.83 km west-southwest of

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. The feature is named after Captain Prince Moores, Master of the Am ...

and 4.9 km northwest of

Canetti Peak Canetti Peak ( bg, връх Канети, vrah Kaneti, ) is a 400 m peak in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free western slopes and ove ...

(British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

Isla Livingston: Península Hurd.
Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991. (Map reproduced on p. 16 of the linked work) * 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.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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