Mount Daynes
| Mount Daynes | ||
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| height | 936 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 12 '12 " S , 59 ° 6' 35" W | |
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Mount Daynes is up to 936 m high mountain in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the east coast of the Trinity Peninsula, it rises at the southeast end of a headland between the Boydell and Sjögren glaciers at the head end of Sjögren Inlet .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2017. It is named after the British entrepreneur Roger Daynes (* 1942), who worked as a meteorologist at Halley Station from 1971 to 1973 and as co-owner and head of an outdoor company the British Antarctic Survey from 1988 equipped with sleds and tents.
Web links
- Daynes, Mount . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland and the South Orkney Islands (English)