Mount Camber
| Mount Camber | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Osterrieth Range | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 40 ′ 47 ″ S , 63 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Camber is a 1400 m (according to Chilean scientists 1351 m ) high and mostly snow-covered mountain on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago . In the Osterrieth Range it rises 1.5 km northeast of Molar Peak .
He was first spotted on the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , who explored the south-east coast of Anvers Island. Its provisional and later discarded name, High Peak , was probably given by Lieutenant Commander John Miller Chaplin (1889–1977) of the Royal Navy , who undertook rough surveys in this area as part of the British Discovery Investigations in 1927. The mountain was given its now established name in 1957 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee based on the wavy ( English cambered ) rock structure near the summit.
Web links
- Mount Camber in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Camber on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 273 (English).