Mount Lagado
| Mount Lagado | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 0 ′ 28 " S , 63 ° 18 ′ 2" W | |
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Mount Lagado is a 1200 m high mountain on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises west of Target Hill on the southern flank of the Leppard Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1988 after Lagado, capital of the fictional island of Laputa from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift from 1726.
Web links
- Mount Lagado in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lagado on geographic.org (English)