# Moores Peak

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**Moores Peak** is the prominent rocky peak rising to 407 m on [Hurd Peninsula](/source/Hurd_Peninsula), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica) and surmounting [False Bay](/source/False_Bay,_Livingston_Island) to the southeast.

The feature is named after Captain Prince Moores, Master of the American [sealing](/source/Seal_hunting) ship *George Porter* that visited the South Shetlands in 1821–22.

## Location

The peak is located at [62°41′21″S 60°20′37″W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=62_41_21_S_60_20_37_W) which is 880 m south by west of [Mirador Hill](/source/Mirador_Hill), 2.2 km south-southwest of [Napier Peak](/source/Napier_Peak), 4.47 km west by north of [Kikish Crag](/source/Kikish_Crag) and 2.21 km east-northeast of [Castellvi Peak](/source/Castellvi_Peak) (British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

## Maps

- [Isla Livingston: Península Hurd.](https://web.archive.org/web/20140201171902/http://uacg.bg/filebank/att_1511.pdf) Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991. (Map reproduced on p. 16 of the linked work)
- L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands](http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg). Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
- [Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).](http://www.add.scar.org) Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALivingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0

## References

- [SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica](http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/).

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