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Basilisk Peak

Coordinates: 59°25′S 27°5′W / 59.417°S 27.083°W / -59.417; -27.083
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Basilisk Peak (Spanish: Pico Basilisco) (59°25′S 27°5′W / 59.417°S 27.083°W / -59.417; -27.083) is, at 255 metres (840 ft), the highest peak marking the crater rim of Bellingshausen Island, South Sandwich Islands. The name as applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 "marks the aura of this savage cliff which falls abruptly into a deep and steaming crater where the basilisk of legend might properly have his den."

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Basilisk Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.