Clayton Hill
| Clayton Hill | ||
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| height | 125 m | |
| location | Petermann Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 10 ′ 8 ″ S , 64 ° 8 ′ 25 ″ W | |
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The Clayton Hill ( French Sommet Clayton ) is a hill in the north central part of the Petermann Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . With a height of 125 m (according to other sources 133 m or 135 m ) it is the highest point on the island.
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) were the first to map it. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named the mountain after the American entrepreneur Thomas Adam Clayton (1852-1925), whose Paris-based subsidiary of the Sulfur Dioxide Fire Extinguishing Company contributed to equipping the expedition. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the French name to English on September 8, 1953.
Web links
- Clayton Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clayton Hill on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 330 (English).