Starbuck Peak
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Starbuck Peak is a peak
, 1,435 m, standing between the heads of Risting Glacier
and Harmer Glacier
in the south part of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Alexander Starbuck, American whaling historian; author of History of the American Whaling Fishery From Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876.
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...
, 1,435 m, standing between the heads of Risting Glacier
Risting Glacier
Risting Glacier is a glacier, 4.5 nautical miles long, lying north of Jenkins Glacier and flowing southeast into the head of Drygalski Fjord in the south part of South Georgia...
and Harmer Glacier
Harmer Glacier
Harmer Glacier is a glacier 3 nautical miles long, flowing southwest from Starbuck Peak to the sea close north of Ranvik, on the south coast of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Sir Sidney F. Harmer....
in the south part of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Alexander Starbuck, American whaling historian; author of History of the American Whaling Fishery From Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876.