Mount Burney
| Mount Burney | ||
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| location | Cook Island ( South Sandwich Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 26 '5 " S , 27 ° 11' 58" W | |
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Mount Burney is a striking, snowy, cone-shaped mountain peak on Cook Island in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic . It rises northwest of Mount Harmer .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2013. It is named after the future British Rear Admiral James Burney (1750-1821), who served the British navigator and explorer James Cook as a midshipman on his second (1772-1775) and third South Seas voyage (1776-1780) ) and was an eyewitness to Cook's murder on February 14, 1779 in Hawaii .
Web links
- Burney, Mount . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)