Mount Calais
| Mount Calais | ||
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| height | 2345 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 10 '52 " S , 70 ° 11' 37" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Calais is a massive and 2345 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 2350 m ) high mountain in the northeast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is located on the northwest bank of the Schokalski Bay .
It was first sighted and roughly mapped in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcots , who named the mountain after the northern French port city of Calais . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a detailed survey in 1948.
Web links
- Mount Calais in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Calais on geographic.org (English)