Mima's Peak

Mima's Peak
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height	1000 m
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains	Herschel Heights
Coordinates	71 ° 53 ′ 3 ″ S , 69 ° 29 ′ 16 ″ W Coordinates: 71 ° 53 ′ 3 ″ S , 69 ° 29 ′ 16 ″ W

The Mimas Peak is an acute and approximately 1000 m high mountain in the southeast of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . In the east of the Herschel Heights it rises 15 km west of the Dione Nunatakker and west of the head end of the Saturn glacier .

The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth took the first aerial photographs on November 23, 1935, which the US cartographer WLG Joerg used for rough mapping. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out another position determination in 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955, based on the naming of the neighboring Saturn Glacier after the Saturn moon Mimas . The British geographer Derek Searle made a detailed mapping of this mountain and the surrounding area in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948).

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