Baker Knoll
| Baker Knoll | ||
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| height | 900 m | |
| location | Montagu Island ( South Sandwich Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 58 ° 26 '34 " S , 26 ° 25' 2" W | |
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The Baker Knoll is an approximately 900 m high and isolated hill on Montagu Island in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic . It rises from an icy caldera southwest of Mount Belinda .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2013. It is named after the British geologist Peter Edward Baker (1937-2008), who carried out the first geological mapping of the South Sandwich Islands in 1964.
Web links
- Baker Knoll . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)