Needle Peak (Livingston Island)

Needle Peak
British Antarctic Territory
Needle Peak
	Livingston Island
Summit:	1,210 feet 62°43’35"S, 60°9’58"W

Needle Peak is a hill on Livingston Island, one of the South Shetland Islands within the British Antarctic Territory. It rises to 1,210 feet on west side of Brunow Bay on the south coast of the island. It is situated in the south-east foothills leading up to Mount Friesland, and rises above the Prespa Glacier on the west. Samuel Point is to the east.

The hill was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers and called 'Barnards Peak' after Captain Charles H. Barnard, Master of the brig Charity (from which Charity Glacier is named) of the American sealing expedition from New York, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821-22. Barnard's name was later applied to Barnard Point.

The peak was recharted by Discovery Investigations, 1934-35, and named descriptively 'Needle Peak' It was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition of 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1957-59.

Refereences

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Needle Peak (Livingston Island)