Ryan Peak
Ryan Peak is a peak 1 nautical mile east of Penitent Peak on Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57. Named for Francis B.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Penitent Peak and Trifid Peak.
Penitent Peak
Peak
Penitent Peak is a peak between Mount Breaker and Ryan Peak on Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955-57 and so named because of the snow penitents which are a characteristic feature in the vicinity of the peak.
Trifid Peak
Peak
Trifid Peak is a peak at the head of Shoesmith Glacier in western Horseshoe Island. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958. The name is descriptive of this three-sided matterhorn-type peak.
Breaker, Mount
Peak
Photo: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Breaker is a mountain with double summits, the eastern summit being, at 880 metres, the highest on Horseshoe Island, off Graham Land. The name was given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 and is descriptive; the two summits are separated by a shallow col and, when seen from the west, resemble a breaking wave.
Ryan Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 282 metres
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.86277° or 67° 51′ 46″ southLongitude
-67.18504° or 67° 11′ 6″ westElevation
282 metres (925 feet)Open location code
374J4RP7+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 9256214150OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ryan Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ryan (tumoy sa bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Ryan”
- Chinese: “賴安峰”
- Dutch: “Ryan Peak”
- German: “Ryan Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ryan Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ryan Peak i Antarktis”
- Spanish: “Ryan, pico”
- Swedish: “Ryan (bergstopp)”
- Swedish: “Ryan Peak”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ryan Peak”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.