Mount Britannia
| Mount Britannia | ||
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| height | 1160 m | |
| location | Rongé Island , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 43 ′ 3 ″ S , 62 ° 40 ′ 52 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Britannia is a 1160 m high mountain and thus the highest point on the Rongé Island off the Danco coast of the west Antarctic Graham Land .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped it for the first time. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the HMY Britannia with which Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited South Georgia , the South Shetland Islands and Graham Land in January 1957 .
Web links
- Mount Britannia in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Britannia on geographic.org (English)