Una Peaks

Twin basalt towers on the Antarctic Peninsula

Una Peaks

Antarctica

ClimbingFirst ascent1999

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 747 metres (2,451 ft),^[4] The formation has been long colloquially known as "Una's Tits".^[1] 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^[1] 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 ^[4] (Kurt Albert, Stefan Glowacz, Hans Martin Götz, Gerhard Heidorn, Holger Heuber and Jürgen Knappe). ^[7]

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References

^ ^a ^b ^c John Splettstoesser (2009). Una Peaks: a long overdue Antarctic geographical naming. Polar Record, 45, pp 177-179. doi:10.1017/S0032247408008036. abstract
^ USGS Geographic Names Information System, Antarctica Feature Detail: Una Peaks
^ American Alpine Club (1998). American Alpine Journal. Seattle, Washington: The Mountaineers Books. p. 136. ISBN 0-930410-78-5.
^ ^a ^b Rubin, Jeff (2008). Antarctica. Melbourne: Lonely Planet. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-74104-549-9.
^ American Alpine Club (1998). American Alpine Journal. Seattle, Washington: The Mountaineers Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-930410-78-5.
^ Chloe Jon Paul, Antarctica For All Ages: The Trip of a Lifetime
^ Alpinist First Ascent

Sources

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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.