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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Rose Peak (GBR) | 62° 02' 49.5" S | 58° 13' 06.6" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 110938
Place ID: 12365
rising to c. 600m NW of King George Bay, King George Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956 and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-59; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the Enderby Brothers' cutter Rose (Capt. John Tobias Mallows), tender to the schooner Hopeful (Mount Hopeful, q.v.); Rose sailed from London in 1833 but was crushed in pack ice on 1 January 1834 in 60°17'S 53°26'W, her crew being rescued by Hopeful (Jones, 1965b, p.238) (APC, 1960, p.7; Hawkes, 1961, map p.3; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968). Gran Andrzeja or Andrzej Ridge, referring to the W ridge of the peak after Dr Andrzej Paulo, a member of the PAE geological party on King George Island, 1979-80 (Tokarski, 1981, p.141). |
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| Rose Peak (USA) | 62° 02' 00.0" S | 58° 12' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 130944
Place ID: 12365
Peak, 655 m, lying nearly 2 mi SW of Rea Peak and 3 mi NE of Ternyck Needle in the central part of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for the Enderby Brothers' cutter Rose, tender to the schooner 1833 or January 1834 the Rose was crushed in the pack ice in 6017S, 5326W; her crew was rescued by the Hopeful. |
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