Aristotle Mountains
| Aristotle Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Madrid Dome ( 1650 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 28 ′ W | |
The Aristotle Mountains (English, Bulgarian планина Аристотел platina Aristotel ) is a fan-shaped arrangement of ridges on the Oscar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . From the Madrid Dome , the highest peak in the mountains at 1650 m , these extend in an east-northeast direction. The mountains are 62 km long and 44 km wide in a south-west-north-easterly extent. It is bounded in the northwest by the Crane Glacier , in the northeast by the Exasperation Inlet and in the south by the Flask Glacier . To the west-south-west it is connected to the Roundel Dome and the Bruce Plateau via a 1550 m high saddle .
British scientists mapped it in 1964. The Bulgarian Commission on Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the Greek scholar Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) who lived around 350 BC. BC postulated the theory of a large land mass in the southern hemisphere and named it Antarctica .
Web links
- Aristotle Mountains in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)