Mount Baleen
| Mount Baleen | ||
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| height | 910 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Aristotle Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 35 '46 " S , 62 ° 10' 48" W | |
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Mount Baleen is a striking and with 910 meters height, the highest mountain in Padesh Ridge of Aristotle Mountains on the Oscar-II. coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It looms between the Rachel Glacier and the Starbuck Glacier . Viewed from the Larsen Ice Shelf , one has a pyramid-like shape.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it in 1976, like other geographical objects in the area, a name from the thematic area " whales and whaling ". Baleen Whales is the English name for baleen whales .
Web links
- Mount Baleen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Baleen on geographic.org (English)