Tuorda Peak

Location of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.

Tuorda Peak (65°59′S 65°10′W / 65.983°S 65.167°W / -65.983; -65.167Coordinates: 65°59′S 65°10′W / 65.983°S 65.167°W / -65.983; -65.167) is a peak, 870 m, rising eastward of Ferin Head on Velingrad Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Pava L. Tuorda, a Jokkmokk Lapp who, with Anders Rossa, accompanied A.E. Nordenskjold to Greenland in 1883 and first demonstrated the possibilities of skis for polar travel.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Tuorda Peak" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).