Mount Holdgate

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Mount Holdgate
Satellite image of Cook Island with Mount Holdgate (bottom right)

Satellite image of Cook Island with Mount Holdgate (bottom right)

height 960  m
location Cook Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Coordinates 59 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  S , 27 ° 10 ′ 4 ″  W Coordinates: 59 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  S , 27 ° 10 ′ 4 ″  W
Mount Holdgate (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Mount Holdgate

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 .

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