Moores Peak

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Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Hurd-Peninsula-location-map.png
Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Moores Peak (in the centre, slightly to the left) from Mount Friesland. Hurd-Peninsula.jpg
Moores Peak (in the centre, slightly to the left) from Mount Friesland.
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island. Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

Moores Peak is the prominent rocky peak rising to 407 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting False Bay to the southeast.

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The feature is named after Captain Prince Moores, Master of the American sealing ship George Porter that visited the South Shetlands in 1821–22.

Location

The peak is located at 62°41′21″S60°20′37″W / 62.68917°S 60.34361°W / -62.68917; -60.34361 which is 880 m south by west of Mirador Hill, 2.2 km south-southwest of Napier Peak, 4.47 km west by north of Kikish Crag and 2.21 km east-northeast of Castellvi Peak (British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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