Boyle Mountains
| Boyle Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Bartholin Peak ( 2100 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 23 ′ S , 66 ° 36 ′ W | |
The Boyle Mountains are a mountain range on the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They loom at the base of the Arrowsmith Peninsula between Lallemand Fjord in the north and Bourgeois Fjord in the south. Prominent peaks are the Quervain Peak ( 2030 m ) and the Bartholin Peak (approx. 2100 m ).
They were mapped by surveying the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and using aerial photographs between 1946 and 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountains in 1959 after the English naturalist Robert Boyle (1627-1692), whose book New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold or an Experimental History of Cold, Begun from 1655 provided a first major scientific and philosophical approach to the origin and effects of cold .
Web links
- Boyle Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boyle Mountains on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1266 (English)
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 123 (English)