Savoia Peak

Luigi Peak from the northwest, in the foreground Port Lockroy

The Luigi Peak, Mount also Savoia, with 1415 m the highest mountain on the Antarctic Wiencke Island.

The mountain is located in the south of Iceland Wiencke, the southernmost island of the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula, about five kilometers south-east of the former British vertex Port Lockroy and forms the north-eastern end of the Sierra Dufief. He is mostly heavily glaciated, the northwest side is, however, dominated by steep cliffs.

The Luigi peak was discovered in 1898 by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery on his Belgica expedition. In the wake of the French Antarctic Expedition of Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1903-1905 he was first climbed and named after the Italian explorer Luigi Amadeo of Savoy.