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)
Bruguière Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bruguière Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The sharp rocky peak rising to 2300 m near the end of the side ridge that trends 9.15 km northeastwards from Mount Giovinetto on the main crest of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains. Situated 6.44 km NE of Mount Giovinetto, 1.45 km NE of Enitsa Peak, 6.83 km W of Mount Jumper, 4.58 km NNW of Versinikia Peak and 5.95 km N by E of Evans Peak. Surmounting Rumyana Glacier to the SE and Delyo Glacier to the NW. US mapping in 1961 and 1988. Named after the French zoologist Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1750-1798) who sailed with Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec to Kerguelen Islands in 1772, becoming the first scientist after Edmund Halley to visit the Antarctic region.
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