Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Twin Peaks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Twin 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:
rising to 730 m and 750 m on W side of Arena Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, were sighted by SwAE in 1902; surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1945 and named descriptively (APC, 1955, p.21; DOS 310 Hope Bay sheet, 1961); further surveyed by FIDS in January 1955. Cerro Cuerno [=horn hill], so called descriptively (Olsacher and others, 1956, p.86).
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