Mount Blunt
| Mount Blunt | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 48 ′ 6 " S , 65 ° 45 ′ 22" W | |
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Mount Blunt is a rounded, snowy and around 1500 m high mountain on the Bowman coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises up on the western flank of the Weyerhaeuser glacier .
The first aerial photographs were taken on September 28, 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the mountain in December 1958 and November 1960. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him on August 31, 1961 after Edmund Blunt (1770-1862), a US publisher of maps and sea maps, whose company was the origin of the US Hydrographic Office (since 1972 Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Center ) formed.
Web links
- Mount Blunt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Blunt on geographic.org (English)