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Magnier Peaks
The Magnier Peaks () are two mountain peaks, the higher at , surmounting the peninsula between Leroux Bay and Bigo Bay on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. These peaks were discovered and named by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
Bigo Bay
Bigo Bay () is a bay long and wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Cape Garcia and Magnier Peninsula surmounted by the Magnier Peaks and Lisiya Ridge.
The French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, first sighted this bay but charted it as the southern part of Leroux Bay. The British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, determined that the peninsula surmounted by the Magnier Peaks separates this bay from Leroux Bay. It was named by John Rymill after Mount Bigo, a mountain at the head of the