Ivory Pinnacles
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The Ivory Pinnacles are a pair of ice-covered peak
s (1,120 m) on the west side of Pettus Glacier
, 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Cape Kjellman
, in northern Graham Land
. It was charted in 1948 by members of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who applied the descriptive name.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
s (1,120 m) on the west side of Pettus Glacier
Pettus Glacier
Pettus Glacier is a narrow deeply entrenched glacier 9 nautical miles long, which flows north from Ebony Wall into Gavin Ice Piedmont between Poynter Hill and Tinsel Dome, Trinity Peninsula. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert N...
, 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Cape Kjellman
Cape Kjellman
Cape Kjellman is a cape marking the east side of the entrance to Charcot Bay, on the west side of Trinity Peninsula. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, and named by him probably for Professor Frans Reinhold Kjellman, Swedish botanist....
, in northern Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
. It was charted in 1948 by members of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who applied the descriptive name.