Reade Peak

Location of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Reade Peak (65°6′S 63°29′W / 65.100°S 63.483°W / -65.100; -63.483Coordinates: 65°6′S 63°29′W / 65.100°S 63.483°W / -65.100; -63.483) is a peak, 1,060 m, rising 1 mile south of Sonia Point and Flandres Bay, on the northeast coast of Kiev Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801–70), English pioneer of photography, who obtained photographs on paper coated with silver nitrate, developed with gallic acid and fixed with hyposulphate of soda, in 1837.

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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