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词条 Una Peaks
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| photo_caption = Una's Tits, Lemaire Channel, January 2010
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}}Una Peaks,[1][2] formerly known as Cape Renard Towers,[3] are two towers of basalt, each topped by a cap of ice, guarding the northern entrance to the Lemaire Channel on the Antarctic Peninsula. With the highest summit at {{convert|747|m}},[4] The formation has been long colloquially known as "Una's Tits".[1] The peaks appear on a British Antarctic Territory stamp although they are not identified as such. The individual towers are referred to as "buttresses".[5]

Una Spivey was the name of a secretary in the governor's office in Stanley, Falkland Islands[1] who was working for what is now the British Antarctic Survey.[6] The tallest tower has only been summited once; this was by a German team in 1999.[4]

See also

  • Lemaire Channel
  • Breast shaped hills

References

1. ^John Splettstoesser (2009). Una Peaks: a long overdue Antarctic geographical naming. Polar Record, 45, pp 177-179. doi:10.1017/S0032247408008036. abstract
2. ^USGS Geographic Names Information System, Antarctica Feature Detail: Una Peaks
3. ^{{cite book|author=American Alpine Club|title=American Alpine Journal |year=1998|publisher=The Mountaineers Books|location=Seattle, Washington|isbn=0-930410-78-5|page=136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ju90XdsRB-AC}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Rubin|first=Jeff|title=Antarctica|year=2008|publisher=Lonely Planet|location=Melbourne|isbn=1-74104-549-5|page=273|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9-DG11ncGkC}}
5. ^{{cite book|author=American Alpine Club|title=American Alpine Journal |year=1998|publisher=The Mountaineers Books|location=Seattle, Washington|isbn=0-930410-78-5|page=139|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ju90XdsRB-AC}}
6. ^Chloe Jon Paul, Antarctica For All Ages: The Trip of a Lifetime

Sources

  • Lonely Planet, Antarctica: a Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit, Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996, p. 305
  • Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985, pp. 126–127.
  • U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.

External links

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