Rea Peak is a
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
, 590 m, lying nearly 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of
Rose Peak and 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) northwest of
Mount Hopeful in the central part of
King George Island, in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
(UK-APC) in 1960 for
Henry Rea, Master of the
Enderby Brothers' schooner the tender Rose to continue
John Biscoe's Antarctic researches. The Antarctic voyage was abandoned after the December 1833 or January 1834.
Mountains of King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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