Garcie Peaks

The Garcie Peaks (69°32′S 66°48′W) are a group of three small peaks, the highest at 960 metres (3,150 ft), located 5 nautical miles (9 km) southeast of Mount Leo on the south side of Fleming Glacier, in the west-central Antarctic Peninsula. They were surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958, and were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Pierre Garcie, a French sailor whose Le grand routier et pilotage (1483) was the first manual of sailing directions to include coastal recognition sketches.[1]

References
  1. "Garcie Peaks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-04-17.

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