Mount Balfour
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| height | 1010 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 18 ′ 49 ″ S , 67 ° 12 ′ 12 ″ W | |
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Mount Balfour is a 1010 m high, bulwark-like and rocky mountain on the Fallières coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises near the mouth of the Fleming Glacier in the Forster-Piedmont Glacier, not far from the interface with the Wordie Ice Shelf .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a rough map in 1936. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it again in 1948 and named it after the British archaeologist Henry Balfour (1863-1939), President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1936 to 1938.
Web links
- Mount Balfour in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Balfour on geographic.org (English)