Mount Lagally
| Mount Lagally | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Dorsey Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 8 '44 " S , 67 ° 5' 34" W | |
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Mount Lagally is an approximately 2000 m high mountain on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arrowsmith Peninsula, it rises 3 miles south of Vanni Peak in the Dorsey Mountains .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs from the years between 1956 and 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the German mathematician and physicist Max Otto Lagally (1881-1945), a pioneer of glacier research .
Web links
- Mount Lagally in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lagally on geographic.org (English)