Pleasant Peak

Pleasant Peak is a location on the Falkland Islands, East Falkland, two miles (3.2 km) north of RAF Mount Pleasant.^[1]

Pleasant Peak
The memorial on Pleasant Peak
Highest point
Coordinates	51°46′55.85″S 58°28′22.13″W
Geography
Pleasant Peak East Falkland, Falkland Islands, south Atlantic Ocean

History

Cross at Pleasant Peak on East Falkland

The mountain was the site of the 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident when HMS Cardiff shot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter, killing its four occupants.^[2]

When the adjacent Mount Pleasant Complex was being constructed in the aftermath of the Falkland conflict, a quarry was opened up on the lower slopes of Pleasant Peak to supply hard rock (quartzite) for the construction of the foundations and a base for the runway.^[3]