Engel Peaks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Engel Peaks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
three peaks rising to 1460m, W of Cape Rymill, Wilkins Coast, were photographed from the air on 20 December 1928 by Wilkins, who gave the name Finley Islands collectively to this feature, DeBusk Scarp (q.v.), Briesemeister Peak (q.v.) and unnamed nunataks to the NE; again photographed from the air by USAS in September 1940 (USHO, 1943, photograph facing p.272); surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in September 1940; named Engel Peaks after Bud Engel, President, Albert Richard Division, Osterman Co., Milwaukee, who contributed clothing to RARE and whose name was originally applied by RARE to Cape Freeman (q.v.) (APC, 1955, p.9; DCS 601 sheet 69 62, 1955). Piki Engel (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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