Mount King (Alexander I Island)
| Mount King | ||
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| height | 1890 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 53 ′ 56 ″ S , 69 ° 26 ′ 7 ″ W | |
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Mount King is a 1,890 m high and mainly icy mountain with a flattened summit in the east of Alexander I Island, west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises between the Sedgwick and Tumble glaciers and is connected to the Douglas Range to the west by an icy ridge .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out the first geodetic surveys in 1936 . Another survey was carried out in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . This named the mountain after the British geologist William Bernard Robinson King (1889-1963), who worked from 1933 to 1955 at the University of Cambridge .
Web links
- Mount King in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount King on geographic.org (English)