Quervain Peak (67°23′S 66°39′W / 67.383°S 66.65°W / -67.383; -66.65) is a peak in the central part of the Boyle Mountains in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1956-59, it was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Alfred de Quervain, a Swiss glaciologist who in 1909 first applied photogrammetric methods to the measurement of surface glacier flow.
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