Valiente Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Valiente 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 c. 2165 m on NE side of Beascochea Bay, Graham Coast, was roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 and named Sommet Saens [sic] Valiente, after Capt. J. P. Saenz Valiente (1860-1925), of the Argentine Navy, who was Minister of Marine for the district of Victorino de la Plaza at the time and formerly associated with the publication of BoletÃn del Instituto Geográfico Argentino, 1900-05 (Charcot, 1912, Pl.4); surveyed by BGLE in August 1935 and January 1936 (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400). Mount Saens [sic] Valiente (USHO, 1943, p.143). Saenz Valiente Peak (USBGN, 1951, p.45; APC, 1955, p.18; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957). The peak was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Saenz Vallente [sic] Peak (BA, 1958, p.89). Valiente Peak (APC, 1959a, p.12; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960; USBGN, 1960, p.9). Pico Saenz Valiente (Pierrou, 1970, p.643).
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