Mount Demaria
| Mount Demaria | ||
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| height | 635 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 17 '20 " S , 64 ° 5' 42" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Demaria ( French Sommet Demaria ) is a 635 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 640 m ) high mountain with distinctive flanks on the Graham coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises immediately south of Cape Tuxen .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery were probably the first to sight this mountain. Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. Charcot named it after the brothers Jules (1865–1950) and Paul Demaria, who had developed an anastigmat that was used in the photographic equipment of the research trip . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred 1950, the French designation into English.
Web links
- Mount Demaria in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Demaria on geographic.org (English)