Pilcher Peak
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Pilcher Peak is a peak
between Mouillard
and Lilienthal Glacier
s, on the west coast of Graham Land
. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Percy Pilcher
(1866–1899), British engineer and pioneer of gliding flight.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
between Mouillard
Mouillard Glacier
Mouillard Glacier is a glacier flowing into the southeast corner of Brialmont Cove, on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the...
and Lilienthal Glacier
Lilienthal Glacier
Lilienthal Glacier is a glacier flowing west into Cayley Glacier between Pilcher and Baldwin Peaks, on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...
s, on the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Percy Pilcher
Percy Pilcher
Percy Sinclair Pilcher was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who was his country's foremost experimenter in unpowered flight at the end of the 19th Century...
(1866–1899), British engineer and pioneer of gliding flight.