Webster Peaks
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Webster Peaks is a group of four rocky peaks, 1065 m, standing west of Whitecloud Glacier
Whitecloud Glacier
Whitecloud Glacier is a glacier which flows northward to discharge into Charcot Bay just west of Almond Point, Trinity Peninsula. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960. The name is descriptive of cloud conditions that prevailed at the time of Falkland Islands...

 at the head of Charcot Bay
Charcot Bay
Charcot Bay is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. He named it for Dr...

 on Davis Coast
Davis Coast
Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

, 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...

 in Antarctica. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948, and named for W.H.B. Webster, medical officer and naturalist on the Chanticleer, which approached Tower
Tower Island
Tower Island is an Antarctic island long and high, lying northeast of Trinity Island and marking the northeast extent of Palmer Archipelago...

 and Trinity Island
Trinity Island
Trinity Island or Île de la Trinité or Isla Trinidad is an island long and wide in the northern part of the Palmer Archipelago. Trinity Island is located at...

s off this coast in 1829.
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