Mount Larsen (Morrell Island)
Mount Larsen | ||
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Morrell Island with Mount Larsen |
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height | 710 m | |
location | Morrell Island ( South Sandwich Islands ) | |
Coordinates | 59 ° 25 '58 " S , 27 ° 21' 32" W | |
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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).
Web links
- Mount Larsen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Larsen on geographic.org (English)