Mount Edgell
| Mount Edgell | ||
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| height | 1675 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 25 '45 " S , 68 ° 15' 29" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Edgell is a 1675 m high mountain on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises east of Cape Jeremy on the east side of the northern entrance to George VI Sound .
He was discovered by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot mistakenly identified the object as Ile Gordon Bennett after the American newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett junior (1841-1918), a sponsor of the research trip . Surveying work by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill showed that it was actually a mountain instead of an island. In the meantime, it has become generally accepted and named after John Augustine Edgell (1880–1962), Vice-Admiral and Hydrograph in the Royal Navy from 1932 to 1945.
Web links
- Mount Edgell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Edgell on geographic.org (English)