Crown Peak

This article is about the peak in the Antarctic Peninsula. For the mountain in China sometimes referred to as "Crown Peak", see The Crown (mountain).

Location of Trinity Peninsula shown in red.

Crown Peak (63°34′S 58°33′W) is an ice-covered peak, 1,185 metres (3,890 ft) high, topped by a conspicuous crown-shaped ice formation. It forms the highest summit and the south end of the Marescot Ridge on the northwest side of the Trinity Peninsula. The peak lies 10 nautical miles (19 km) east of Cape Roquemaurel, 4.2 km west of Lardigo Peak and 7.17 km northeast of Mount Ignatiev. It was named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following their survey of the area in 1946.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Crown Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.