Crown Peak
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Crown Peak is an ice-covered peak (1,185 m) topped by a conspicuous crown-shaped ice formation. It forms the highest summit and the south end of Marescot Ridge
Marescot Ridge
Marescot Ridge is a ridge consisting of numerous ice-covered hills, the highest being Crown Peak at the south end of the ridge. Located 2 nautical miles inland from Marescot Point along the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula...

 and lies 10 nautical miles (18 km) east of Cape Roquemaurel
Cape Roquemaurel
Cape Roquemaurel is a prominent rocky headland at the east side of the entrance to Bone Bay, on the north side of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Lieutenant Louis de Roquemaurel, second-in-command of the...

 on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

. Named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) following their survey of the area in 1946.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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