Jabet Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Jabet Peak (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:
rising to 545m NE of Port Lockroy, Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago, was probably sighted by BeAE in February 1898; roughly mapped by FAE, 1903-05, in 1905 and named Pic Jabet after Jacques Jabet, boatswain in the expedition ship Français, who climbed in the area (Charcot, 1906b, p.285; Gourdon, 1908, end map). Jabet Peak (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.405; APC, 1955, p.12; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). The Ridge (Jabet Peak) (USHO, 1943, p.131). The peak was surveyed by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944 and 1948. Monte Angamos, so called by CAE after the Chilean transport ship Angamos (Chile. IGM, 1948a, photograph following p.133). Monte Ridge (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949). Monte Lomo [=ridge mountain] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.270; Pierrou, 1970, p.489). Monte Teniente, probably also referring to this feature in association with the Argentine name for Doumer Hill (q.v.) (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.274a, upper photograph.
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