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Day Thread of Highest Peaks: Boggy Peak, Antigua and Barbuda (09/21)

In the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, the highest point is Boggy Peak. Located in the Shekerley Mountains in the southwestern part of Antigua, Boggy Peak reaches an elevation of 1,319 feet (402 meters). The summit is occupied by what appears to be a communications tower and related structures, which can be seen in excellent detail via some close drone/helicopter photo spheres.

I added the yellow arrow to indicate what I believe is Boggy Peak, seen here looking east from offshore of Antigua over Jolly Harbour / Photo author: Edgar El

The Wikipedia article suggests that the name “Boggy” may be an evolution of “Boogie” (as in Boogie Man or Bogeyman) as well as the mountain being inhabited at times by escaped plantation slaves, but there seems to be a shortage of citation for the section containing those notes.

Less unclear is this bit of trivia:

On August 4, 2009, the peak was renamed Mount Obama by then-Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, after United States president Barack Obama.[4] The original name was restored in 2016 by cabinet decision.[5]

That being said, many online listings of the mountain are still using the presidential name, e.g. this Google Maps aerial view:

Source and copyright: Google Maps

Have a high Saturday, whatever that means! 🏞️

*Header image author: dearinaima / I cropped the image for better landscape orientation.