Mount Arronax
| Mount Arronax | ||
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| height | 1585 m | |
| location | Pourquoi-Pas Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 40 ′ 27 " S , 67 ° 21 ′ 6" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Arronax is an icy, pointed and 1585 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 1540 m ) high mountain in the northern part of the Pourquoi-Pas Island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 10 km west-southwest of Nautilus Head .
The first survey of the mountain was made in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Another survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey followed in 1948 . It is named after the fictional character of Professor Pierre Arronax from the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by the French writer Jules Verne . Numerous other objects on the Pourquoi-Pas Island were also named after characters from this Roma.
Web links
- Mount Arronax in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Arronax on geographic.org (English)