Una Peaks Explained

Una Peaks
Other Name:	Una's Tits
Elevation M:	747
Map:	Antarctica
Map Size:	200
Label Position:	right
Coordinates:	-65.1067°N -63.9406°W
First Ascent:	1999

Una Peaks,^{[1] [2]} formerly known as Cape Renard Towers,^[3] are two towers of basalt, each topped by a cap of ice, guarding the northern entrance to the Lemaire Channel on the Antarctic Peninsula. With the highest summit at,^[4] The formation has been long colloquially known as "Una's Tits". The peaks appear on a British Antarctic Territory stamp although they are not identified as such. The individual towers are referred to as "buttresses".^[5]

Una Spivey was the name of a secretary in the governor's office in Stanley, Falkland Islands who was working for what is now the British Antarctic Survey.^[6] The tallest tower has only been summited once; this was by a German team in 1999 (Kurt Albert, Stefan Glowacz, Hans Martin Götz, Gerhard Heidorn, Holger Heuber and Jürgen Knappe).^[7]

See also

• Lemaire Channel
• Breast shaped hills

Sources

• Lonely Planet, Antarctica: a Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit, Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996, p. 305
• Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985, pp. 126–127.
• U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.

External links

• Web site: 0 . Rob . Oo . . Ship for scale - Una Peaks (747 m), Renard Island, Antarctic Peninsula . Jan 26, 2012 . Flickr .

Notes and References

1. John Splettstoesser (2009). Una Peaks: a long overdue Antarctic geographical naming. Polar Record, 45, pp 177-179. doi:10.1017/S0032247408008036. abstract
2. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:19175 USGS Geographic Names Information System, Antarctica Feature Detail: Una Peaks
3. Book: American Alpine Club. American Alpine Journal . 1998. The Mountaineers Books. Seattle, Washington. 0-930410-78-5. 136.
4. Book: Rubin, Jeff. Antarctica. 2008. Lonely Planet. Melbourne. 978-1-74104-549-9. 273.
5. Book: American Alpine Club. American Alpine Journal . 1998. The Mountaineers Books. Seattle, Washington. 0-930410-78-5. 139.
6. Chloe Jon Paul, Antarctica For All Ages: The Trip of a Lifetime
7. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web07-08w/newswire-pou-brothers-antarctica Alpinist First Ascent