Mount Boland
| Mount Boland | ||
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| height | 1065 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 18 '33 " S , 63 ° 49' 43" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Boland ( French Sommet Boland ) is a 1065 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee about 1200 m ) high mountain on the Kiev Peninsula on the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 10 km east of Lumière Peak from a mountain ridge with an east-west orientation between the Bussey and Trooz glaciers .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered him. Charcot named the mountain after Benoît Boland (1885–1983), initially a seaman and later an officer on board Charcot's research vessel Pourquoi Pas? The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the French name into English in 1950.
Web links
- Mount Boland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Boland on geographic.org (English)