Behaim Peak
Behaim Peak (68°47′S 66°43′W / 68.783°S 66.717°W) is a conspicuous pyramid-shaped rock
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958. The peak was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Martin Behaim, a German cosmographer and navigator who is credited with the first adoption of the astronomer's astrolabe
for navigation at sea, in 1480.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from "Behaim Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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