Starbuck Peak
Starbuck Peak (54°44′S 36°12′W / 54.733°S 36.200°WCoordinates: 54°44′S 36°12′W / 54.733°S 36.200°W) is a peak, 1,435 m, standing between the heads of Risting Glacier and Harmer Glacier in the south part of South Georgia. Surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Alexander Starbuck, American whaling historian; author of History of the American Whaling Fishery From Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876.
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