
Gourdon Peak
(Booth Island)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 65° 5' 20" S 63° 59' 46" W
rising to c. 800m on Booth Island, Graham Coast, N of Wandel Peak, was mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, in 1904 and named Sommet Gourdon after Dr Ernest Gourdon, geologist on the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05 and 1908-10, and leader of the party which attempted to cross Graham Land in September 1909. The peak was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey-RN, 1956-58.