Mount Charles
| Mount Charles | ||
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| height | 1110 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Charles is a 1110 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 5 km south of Mount Cronus .
The British navigator and explorer John Biscoe named four mountains in the position of the Scott Mountains after the brothers Charles (1798–1876), Henry, Gordon and George Enderby of the whale on a map that was created during his Antarctic voyage from 1830 to 1831 - and sealing company Samuel Enderby & Sons and owner of his ship Tula . Since none of these mountains could later be identified, the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) transferred one of these names to the mountain described here for reasons of continuity. Its position was determined from aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956 and 1957.
Web links
- Mount Charles in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Charles on geographic.org (English)