Stanley Peak
Stanley Peak is a central summit in the Wilckens Peaks, rising to 1,265 m at the head of Fortuna Glacier, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Lieutenant Commander Ian Stanley, Royal Navy, a helicopter pilot from HMS Antrim, who carried out a rescue operation in bad weather after two helicopters had crashed on Fortuna Glacier, 21 April 1982.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,263 metres
- Description: mountain in South Georgia
- Also known as: “Stanley Peak, South Georgia”
Stanley Peak
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.18572° or 54° 11′ 9″ southLongitude
-36.92187° or 36° 55′ 19″ westElevation
1,263 metres (4,144 feet)Open location code
39Q5R37H+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 9128776820OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Stanley Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Stanley Peak (tumoy sa bukid sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Stanley Peak”
- Chinese: “斯坦利峰”
- Dutch: “Stanley Peak”
- German: “Stanley Peak”
- Hebrew: “פסגת סטנלי (איי ג’ורג’יה הדרומית)”
- Hebrew: “פסגת סטנלי”
- Italian: “Stanley Peak (Georgia del Sud)”
- Italian: “Stanley Peak”
- Ladin: “Stanley Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stanley Peak på Sør-Georgia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stanley Peak”
- Spanish: “Pico Stanley”
- Swedish: “Stanley Peak, Sydgeorgien”
- Swedish: “Stanley Peak”
- Venetian: “Stanley Peak (Georgia del Sud)”
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