Colbert Mountains
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 39 ′ S , 70 ° 7 ′ W | |
The Colbert Mountains are an isolated mountain massif with some rounded and snow-covered peaks of up to 1500 m in height, which form the Handel-Piedmont Glacier between Haydn Inlet and Schubert Inlet in the western center of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Towering over the peninsula .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth saw it for the first time during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting photographs were used for mapping by Ellsworth's compatriot, the geographer WLG Joerg . Further aerial photographs were taken by the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . This named the Mountains after Rear Admiral Leo Otis Colbert (1883-1968), head of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey , which provided equipment for the expedition. The aerial photo of Ronnes was used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the 1960 Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for a detailed mapping.
Web links
- Colbert Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Colbert Mountains on geographic.org (English)