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Quervain Peak
Quervain
Peak
is a
peak
in the
central
part of the
Boyle Mountains
in
Graham Land
,
Antarctica
. Mapped by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
from
surveys
and
air
photos
, 1956–59, it was named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for
Alfred de Quervain
, a Swiss
glaciologist
who in 1909 first applied
photogrammetric
methods
to the
measurement
of
surface
glacier
flow
.