Mount Kirkwood
| Mount Kirkwood | ||
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 Map of Deception Island with Mount Kirkwood (below) |
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| height | 460 m | |
| location | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 0 ′ 11 " S , 60 ° 38 ′ 56" W | |
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Mount Kirkwood is a 460 m high mountain in the south of Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 5 km west of the Entrance Point .
The British navigator Henry Foster mapped it during his Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1828 to 1831. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1950 after Captain Henry W. Kirkwood (1910-1977) of the Royal Navy , skipper of the supply ship RRS John Biscoe in Antarctic waters between 1948 and 1950.
Web links
- Mount Kirkwood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kirkwood on geographic.org (English)