Chanute Peak

Location of Davis Coast.

Chanute Peak (63°56′S 59°58′W / 63.933°S 59.967°W / -63.933; -59.967) is a peak in Korten Ridge on the east side of Lanchester Bay, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Wennersgaard Point, Davis Coast in Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Octave Chanute, American designer of gliders who first introduced moveable planes for the purpose of control and stability, 1896–97.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Chanute Peak" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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