Mount Holdgate
Mount Holdgate | ||
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Satellite image of Cook Island with Mount Holdgate (bottom right) |
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height | 960 m | |
location | Cook Island ( South Sandwich Islands ) | |
Coordinates | 59 ° 27 ′ 13 ″ S , 27 ° 10 ′ 4 ″ W | |
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Mount Holdgate is a prominent and 960 m high mountain on Cook Island in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . With steep glacier breaks and cliffs, it rises at the southeastern end of the island and is a landmark that can be seen from afar .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after the British biologist Martin Wyatt Holdgate (* 1931), organizer and chief scientist of the 1964 exploration of the South Sandwich Islands with the ship HMS Protector .
Web links
- Mount Holdgate in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Holdgate on geographic.org (English)