Mount Balch
| Mount Balch | ||
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| height | 1105 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 15 ′ 17 ″ S , 63 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Balch is a mountain on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the west side of the Kiev Peninsula, it rises not far from Waddington Bay between Mount Peary in the east, Mount Mill in the west, the Wiggins Glacier in the north and the Bussey Glacier in the south. It has several sharp ridged and east-west oriented mountain peaks, the highest of which reaches a height of 1105 m .
He was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named the mountain after Edwin Swift Balch (1856-1927), American mountaineer, glaciologist and Antarctic historian.
Web links
- Mount Balch in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Balch on geographic.org (English)