Triune Peaks () are three prominent, sharply pointed rock peaks, rising 12 nautical miles (22 km) northeast of
Mount Balfour and overlooking
Wordie Ice Shelf
The Wordie Ice Shelf () was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula.
In March 2008, the British Antarctic Survey r ...
on the west coast of
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
. First roughly surveyed from the ground by
British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1936–37. Photographed from the air by
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
Background
Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
(RARE), December 1947. Resurveyed from the ground by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), November 1958. The
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) name derives from the number of peaks in the group.
Mountains of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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