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'''Stejneger Peak''' is a hill | '''Stejneger Peak''' is a hill on [[Bird Island, South Georgia|Bird Island]], west of [[South Georgia]], which rises to 607 feet above sea level. It is to the west of [[Jordan Cove]], on the island's south coast, | ||
Bird Island, was named following the South Georgia Biological Survey of 1958-59, after Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), an American zoologist who studied fur seals and birds in the islands of Bering Sea in the late nineteenth century and who was a member of the Joint British-American Commission for Fur Seal Investigation in the Bering Sea, 1896. | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:45, 8 October 2021
| Stejneger Peak | |||
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |||
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| Bird Island | |||
| Summit: | 607 feet 54°-0’39"S, 38°3’52"W | ||
Stejneger Peak is a hill on Bird Island, west of South Georgia, which rises to 607 feet above sea level. It is to the west of Jordan Cove, on the island's south coast,
Bird Island, was named following the South Georgia Biological Survey of 1958-59, after Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), an American zoologist who studied fur seals and birds in the islands of Bering Sea in the late nineteenth century and who was a member of the Joint British-American Commission for Fur Seal Investigation in the Bering Sea, 1896.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Stejneger Peak