Mount Inverleith
| Mount Inverleith | ||
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| height | 1495 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 57 '24 " S , 62 ° 45' 59" W | |
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Mount Inverleith is a 1,495 m high mountain on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises near the edge of a step 3 km east-northeast of the head end of Skontorp Cove .
The Scottish geologist David Ferguson (1857-1936) mapped it during his Antarctic voyage with the whaler Hanka, which lasted from 1913 to 1914 . He named it as Inverleith Hill . It is named after the Scottish town of Leith , the seat of the whaling company Salvesen & Co. , the owner of the Hanka . The prefix “inver” indicates the location of a river mouth. The name that is valid today goes back to an adaptation of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee on September 23, 1960.
Web links
- Mount Inverleith in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Inverleith on geographic.org (English)