Mount Christi
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 Map of Smith Island with Mount Christi (top right) |
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| height | 1280 m | |
| location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Imeon Range | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 54 ′ 37 ″ S , 62 ° 24 ′ 7 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Christi is a 1280 m high mountain on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Imeon Range it rises 5 km northeast of Mount Pisgah in the northeast part of the island.
The British polar traveler Henry Foster named the North Cape of Smith Island as Cape Christ during his Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1828 to 1831 . However, since this was already named Cape Smith , the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred Foster's name to the mountain described here for reasons of continuity in 1953. It is named after the British mathematician and naturalist Samuel Hunter Christie [sic!] (1784–1865), with whom Foster published a book on geomagnetism in 1826 .
Web links
- Mount Christi in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Christi 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. 320 (English).