Haskard Highlands

The Haskard Highlands are a range of peaks and ridges between Blaiklock Glacier and Stratton Glacier in the north-west of the Shackleton Range in the British Antarctic Territory. They climb to 4,413 feet above sea level at the summit of Mount Weston.

The highlands were first mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and photographed from the air by the United States Navy in 1967. They were surveyed on the ground by the British Antarctic Survey from Halley between 1968 and 1971, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard, Governor of the Falkland Islands between 1964 and 1970 and High Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory in the same period.

The Haskard Highlands include:

• Mount Weston and (from north to south):
• Mount Provender
• Pratts Peak
• Mount Gass
• Honnywill Peak
• Mount Rogers
• Pointer Nunatak

Location

• Location map: 80°30’0"S, 29°15’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Haskard Highlands