Binn Peak

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Binn Peak (on the left) from Mount Friesland.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Binn Peak is the conspicuous rocky peak rising to 400 m above Miers Bluff at the southwest extremity of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The feature is named after Captain T. Binn, Master of the British sealing vessel Minerva that visited the South Shetlands in 1820-21.

Location

The peak is located at 62°43′02″S 60°25′29.3″W / 62.71722°S 60.424806°W / -62.71722; -60.424806 which is 2.66 km south-southwest of MacGregor Peaks, 5.2 km southwest of Moores Peak and 5.43 km west by north of Canetti Peak (British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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