Moores Peak

Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Moores Peak (in the centre, slightly to the left) from Mount Friesland.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Moores Peak is the prominent rocky peak rising to 407 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting False Bay to the southeast.

The feature is named after Captain Prince Moores, Master of the American sealing ship George Porter that visited the South Shetlands in 1821-22.

Location

The peak is located at 62°41′21″S 60°20′37″W / 62.68917°S 60.34361°W which is 880 m south by west of Mirador Hill, 2.2 km south-southwest of Napier Peak, 4.47 km west by north of Kikish Crag and 2.21 km east-northeast of Castellvi Peak (British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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