Mount Cardinall
| Mount Cardinall | ||
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| height | 675 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 26 '53 " S , 57 ° 10' 58" W | |
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Mount Cardinall is a 675 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 680 m ) high and conical mountain in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Trinity Peninsula, it rises at the northeast head end of Duse Bay immediately southwest of Mount Taylor .
A team led by Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered him during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out the mapping and naming in 1945. It is named after Allan Wolsey Cardinall (1887–1956), Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1941 to 1946.
Web links
- Mount Cardinall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cardinall on geographic.org (English)