Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Sharp Peak (Livingston Island) (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sharp Peak (Livingston Island) (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. 500m N of Moon Bay, E Livingston Island, was charted by DI, 1934-35, and named descriptively (Nelson and others, chart 1935b; BA chart 3205, 25.iii.1937; APC, 1955, p.19; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968). Pico Puntiagudo [=sharp-pointed peak] (Chile. DNH chart L, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.233). Pico Sharp (Argentina. MM chart ZZ, 1948). Pico Agudo (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.222; Pierrou, 1970, p.151). The peak was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-59.
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