Mount Biscoe
| Mount Biscoe | ||
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| height | 700 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Biscoe is a distinctive and conspicuously black mountain on the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . With a height of 700 m it overlooks Cape Ann at a distance of 5 km from Mount Hurley to the north.
Aerial photographs of the mountain were taken on December 22, 1929 when the Norwegian polar explorer Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen flew over . He was also photographed on January 14, 1930 from the RSS Discovery during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . On both research trips, the participants assumed that the mountain was the cape that the British navigator and explorer John Biscoe (1794–1843) discovered on March 16, 1831 and named after his wife as Cape Ann . The name was retained for the cape while the mountain was named after Biscoe. The exact position was determined in 1957 by a team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Mount Biscoe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Biscoe on geographic.org (English)