Antarctica

Wayne Head

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Russet Pikes and Spincloud Heights.

Peak
Photo: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
are Antarctic peaks just east of the mouth of on Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57. The name is descriptive; reddish-brown colour is visible on the feature most of the year, the slopes being too steep to retain snow cover for any length of time.

Peak
Photo: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a heights bordering the north side of on Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57, and so named because clouds of spindrift blowing off the heights give warning of approaching storms. is situated 3 km south of Wayne Head.

Islet
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is a small off eastern Horseshoe Island. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57. So named because of the feature's apparent reluctance to be recognized as an island; it did not appear on maps of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934–37 and was mapped as a peninsula by FIDS in 1948–50. is situated 4 km southeast of Wayne Head.

Wayne Head

Latitude
-67.81361° or 67° 48′ 49″ south
Longitude
-67.14667° or 67° 8′ 48″ west
Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)
Open location code
374J5VP3+H8
Geo­Names ID
8521206
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