Mount Holmes
| Mount Holmes | ||
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| height | 1440 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 47 '32 " S , 64 ° 15' 5" W | |
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Mount Holmes is a 1440 m high and pillar-like mountain on the Foyn coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 miles northwest of Mount Hayes .
In 1947 he was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed from the air during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The FIDS named the mountain after the bibliographer and administrator Maurice Gerald Holmes (1885–1964), who wrote a biography of the British navigator and explorer James Cook in 1936 .
Web links
- Mount Holmes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Holmes on geographic.org (English)