Mount Alibi
| Mount Alibi | ||
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| height | 925 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 54 '44 " S , 62 ° 41' 0" W | |
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The Mount Alibi is a 925 m high and prominent mountain , the 5km east-southeast of Adit-Nunatak on the north edge of Leppard Glacier in Antarctica Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula rises.
Its discoverer is the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins during an overflight on December 20, 1928. However, Wilkins' object named as Mount Napier Birks could not be identified by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 when the area was surveyed. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee then named a mountain 64 km further northeast Mount Birks . A further survey in 1955 showed that Wilkins' discovery must be the mountain described here, which, due to the confusion in the past, was named after the Latin term alibi for the proof of the presence in a place other than the relevant place .
Web links
- Mount Alibi in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Alibi on geographic.org (English)