Mount Achala
| Mount Achala | ||
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 Mount Achala in the Telephone Ridge in the northwest |
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| location | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Achala ( Spanish Monte Achala ) is a mountain at the northern end of the Telefon Ridge ridge on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands .
Participants in the Argentine Antarctic Expedition in 1956 named it after a mountain of the same name in Argentina . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names converted the Spanish name into English in 1965.
Web links
- Mount Achala in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Achala 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. 5 (English).