Mount Dow
| Mount Dow | ||
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| height | 1680 m | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 42 ′ 18 ″ S , 36 ° 9 ′ 54 ″ W | |
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Mount Dow is a 1680 m high mountain in the southern part of South Georgia . It rises 1.5 km west of the northern foothills of Mount Carse on the southern flank of the Nowosilski Glacier .
The South Georgia Survey mapped it as part of the 1951-1957 survey campaign . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the American whaling historian George Francis Dow (1868-1936), author of the book Whale Ships and Whaling: A Pictorial History of Whaling During Three Centuries from 1925.
Web links
- Mount Dow in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dow on geographic.org (English)