Mount Guernsey
| Mount Guernsey | ||
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| height | 1250 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 19 '57 " S , 68 ° 15' 44" W | |
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Mount Guernsey is a 1,250 m high, isolated and mainly icy mountain on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 11 km north of Mount Edgell .
He was discovered by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot mistakenly identified the property as Île Guernesey after the British Channel Island of the same name . 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. Charcot's naming has been adapted accordingly. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out further measurements in 1948.
Web links
- Mount Guernsey in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Guernsey on geographic.org (English)