Mount Larsen (Morrell Island)

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Mount Larsen
Morrell Island with Mount Larsen

Morrell Island with Mount Larsen

height 710  m
location Morrell Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Coordinates 59 ° 25 '58 "  S , 27 ° 21' 32"  W Coordinates: 59 ° 25 '58 "  S , 27 ° 21' 32"  W
Mount Larsen (Morrell Island) (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Mount Larsen (Morrell Island)

At 710  m (according to British data 700  m ), Mount Larsen is the highest mountain on Morrell Island in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic .

Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it and named it in 1930. It was named after the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen (1860-1924).

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