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Precious Peaks
Precious Peaks
is
a line
of about three dark
peaks
at the northeast side of
Martel Inlet
,
Admiralty Bay
, on
King George Island
in the
South Shetland Islands
. Charted by the
French Antarctic Expedition
under
Charcot
, 1908–10. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in 1960 for
Alan Precious
of
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
, meteorological
observer
at
Hope Bay
in 1954 and 1955, and leader at the Admiralty
Bay station
in
1957
.