Una Peaks
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| Una's Tits | |
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Una's Tits, Lemaire Channel, January 2010
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 Una Peaks
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Una Peaks,[1][2] formerly known as Cape Renard Towers,[3] are two towers of basalt, each topped by a cap of ice, guarding the northern entrance to the Lemaire Channel on the Antarctic Peninsula. With the highest summit at 747 metres (2,451 ft),[4] The formation has been long colloquially known as "Una's Tits".[1] The peaks appear on a British Antarctic Territory stamp although they are not identified as such. The individual towers are referred to as "buttresses".[5]
Una Spivey was the name of a secretary in the governor's office in Stanley, Falkland Islands[1] who was working for what is now the British Antarctic Survey.[6] The tallest tower has only been summited once; this was by a German team in 1999.[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Splettstoesser (2009). Una Peaks: a long overdue Antarctic geographical naming. Polar Record, 45, pp 177-179. doi:10.1017/S0032247408008036. abstract
- ↑ USGS Geographic Names Information System, Antarctica Feature Detail: Una Peaks
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- ↑ Chloe Jon Paul, Antarctica For All Ages: The Trip of a Lifetime
Sources
- Lonely Planet, Antarctica: a Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit, Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996, p. 305
- Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985, pp. 126–127.
- U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.
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