Megalestris Hill
| Megalestris Hill | ||
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 Stone mound with a plaque for the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) on Megalestris Hill |
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| height | 35 m | |
| location | Petermann Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 10 ′ 30 " S , 64 ° 8 ′ 27" W | |
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The Megalestris Hill ( French Colline des Mégalestris ) is a 35 m high hill in the southern part of Petermann Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) were the first to map it. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named the mountain after a name for the Antarctic skua, which is no longer in use . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the French name to English in 1953. On the hill there is a cairn with a plaque for the Charcots Expedition, which is one of the Historic Places and Monuments in Antarctica (HSM-27).
Web links
- Megalestris Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Megalestris Hill on geographic.org (English)