Mount Fell
| Mount Fell | ||
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| height | 1370 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Werner Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 26 ′ 50 ″ S , 62 ° 16 ′ 8 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Fell is a 1370 m high mountain near the Lassiter coast in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northern part of the Werner Mountains it rises 13 km west of Mount Hemmingsen .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1961 to 1967. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1968 by Jack Warner Fell (born 1933), a biologist on the icebreaker USCGC Eastwind on the voyage along the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from 1965 to 1966.
Web links
- Mount Fell in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fell on geographic.org (English)