Mount Ancla
| Mount Ancla | ||
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| height | 815 m | |
| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Osterrieth Range | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 48 '58 " S , 63 ° 40' 20" W | |
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Mount Ancla ( Spanish Monte Ancla , in the United Kingdom Mount Hindson ) is a 815 m high mountain in the Osterrieth Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km north of Cape Lancaster and is snow-covered apart from a ridge on the south side.
The Falklands Island Dependencies Survey surveyed the mountain in 1944 and 1955. The name of the mountain, which literally means anchor mountain , can be found for the first time on an Argentine map from 1950. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this name into English in 1967. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after William John Hindson (* 1935), a geodesist of the FIDS.
Web links
- Mount Ancla in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ancla on geographic.org (English)