COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to 1860m NE of Mount Foster, Smith Island (q.v.), was roughly charted by American sealers in the 1820-21 season, when the names Mount Pesca, Mount Pisco, Mount Pisgah and Mount Pisgo were used indiscriminately for the island as a whole (Stackpole, 1955, p.50). The name Pisco may possibly be after the port of Pisco on the coast of Peru where early nineteenth-century sealers refitted their ships on passage to and from the Antarctic. The name Pisgah may possibly be after Mount Pisgah, Burham, Conn. (in turn named after the biblical mountain from which Moses saw the Promised Land), because from a distance the outline of the island was reminiscent of the twin peaks of this mountain (e.g. Charcot, 1906b, photograph p.7). The names Pesca and Pisgo may be corrupt forms of the other two names. Various forms of these names were later restricted to the present feature. Mount Pisco (Powell, chart, 1831; BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901; 2.ix.1938). Mount Piso [sic] (BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839). Mont Pisco (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). Pisco Berg (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Monte Piso [sic] (Gerlache, 1902a, end map). Pic Lisco [sic] (Bongrain, 1914, vue 11 following p.60). Mount Risco [sic], in error (BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921). Pisgahfjellet (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The mountain was roughly charted by DI, 1930-31 (Carey and Nelson, 1931b). Mount Pisgah (USHO chart 5411, 1940; BA chart 3205, 12.ii.1954; APC, 1955, p.17; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962).X0

Peak, 1,860 m, standing nearly 3 mi SW of Mount Christi and 4 mi NE of Mount Foster in the north-central part of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands. Because the peaks of Smith Island gave it a forked appearance when seen from a distance, American sealers in the 1820s called it Mount Pisgah Island after the double-topped Mount Pisgah in the town of Durham, CT. The name has since been restricted to the peak described.

Con motivo de que los picos de la isla Smith le daban la forma de horquilla, vistos de lejos, los cazadores de focas americanos e ingleses de 1820 lo llamaron isla monte Pisgah, por el parecido con la doble cima del monte Pisgah de la ciudad de Durham. El nombre ha sido desde entonces limitado al pico descrito. Se eleva a 1.320 metros, está situado a unas 3 millas al SW del monte Christi y 4,5 millas al NE del monte Foster ubicado en el centro de la isla Smith, islas Shetland del Sur.