Mount Bain

Mount Bain
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height	2090  m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	66 ° 33 '3 "  S , 65 ° 26' 33"  W Coordinates: 66 ° 33 '3 "  S , 65 ° 26' 33"  W

Mount Bain is a 2090  m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 1550  m ) high mountain on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises there between the Hopkins and Erskine glaciers .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the British nutritionist James Stuart Bain (* 1923), who developed a vacuuming process between 1948 and 1956 to preserve expedition food .

Web links

• Mount Bain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Bain on geographic.org (English)