Melville Peak
| Melville Peak | ||
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| height | 549 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 1 ′ 16 ″ S , 57 ° 40 ′ 16 ″ W | |
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The Melville Peak ( French Mont Melville ) is a striking and 549 m high mountain on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It towers above the eroded stratovolcano with a summit crater the Cape Melville on the eastern end of the island. A layer of ash that was discovered 30 km away in the sediment of the Bransfield Strait and suggests an eruption a few thousand years ago may have come from him.
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. Charcot named it after the cape of the same name. Its namesake is Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), First Lord of the Admiralty from 1812 to 1827 and from 1828 to 1830. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred this name in 1952 into English.
Web links
- Melville Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Melville Peak on geographic.org (English)
- Melville in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Kraus et al .: Geochemical signatures of tephras from Quaternary Antarctic Peninsula volcanoes . In: Andean Geology . tape 40 , no. January 1 , 2013, ISSN 0716-0208 , 4.5. Melville Peak (King George Island), S. 9 , doi : 10.5027 / andgeoV40n1-a01 (English).