Mount Alexander (Antarctica)
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 MODIS satellite image with Joinville Island (center) and the bays Gibson Bay (left) and Haddon Bay (right) separated on the south coast by Mount Alexander |
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| height | 595 m | |
| location | Joinville Island ( Joinville Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 18 '14 " S , 55 ° 48' 20" W | |
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Mount Alexander is up to 595 m high mountain with several peaks, which forms a rocky peninsula on the south coast of the Antarctic Joinville Island , which separates Gibson Bay from Haddon Bay .
The cliff-like foothills of the peninsula were sighted on January 8, 1893 by Captain Thomas Robertson (1854-1918), skipper of the whaler Active on the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892-1893), and named Cape Alexander . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee changed the name to its current form in 1956 after measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1953 to 1954, which revealed the true nature of the object.
Web links
- Mount Alexander in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Alexander on geographic.org (English)