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)
Peregrinus Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Peregrinus Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A peak (1,915 m) along the N side of Airy Glacier, 3 mi SE of Mount Timosthenes, in central Antarctic Peninsula. Photographed from the air by RARE Nov. 27, 1947. Surveyed by FIDS in Dec. 1958. Named by UK-APC after Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, of Luceria, author of Epistola de magnete (1269), the first scientific treatise on the magnet.
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