Mount Eastman
| Mount Eastman | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 9 ′ 58 ″ S , 62 ° 59 ′ 7 ″ W | |
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Mount Eastman is a 1200 m high mountain on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 6 km south of Pelletan Point at the head of the Bay of Flanders .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman (1854-1932).
Web links
- Mount Eastman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Eastman on geographic.org (English)