Quervain Peak
Quervain Peak is a peak in the central part of the Boyle Mountains in Graham Land, Antarctica. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1956–59, it was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Alfred de Quervain, a Swiss glaciologist who in 1909 first applied photogrammetric methods to the measurement of surface glacier flow.- Peak rising to 2,030 metres (6,660 feet)
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.39678° or 67° 23′ 48″ south
Longitude
-66.65403° or 66° 39′ 15″ west
Open location code
374MJ83W+79
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Quervain Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Quervain Peak”
- Chinese: “奎爾萬峰”
- Dutch: “Quervain Peak”
- German: “Quervain Peak”
- Ladin: “Quervain Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Quervain Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Quervain Peak”
- Swedish: “Quervain Peak”
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Highlights include Boyle Mountains and Antevs Glacier.
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