Starbuck Peak () is a
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
, 1,435 m, standing between the heads of
Risting Glacier and
Harmer Glacier in the south part of
South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. Surveyed by the
South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the
United Kingdom 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 ...
(UK-APC) for
Alexander Starbuck
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
, American whaling historian; author of History of the
American Whaling Fishery From Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. The first ascent was made on 23 September 2016 by Henry Chaplin, Caradoc Jones, David Lund, Skip Novak, Simon Richardson and Stephen Venables.
Mountains and hills of South Georgia
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