Mount Leo

Mount Leo
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height	1270 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	69 ° 29 ′ 54 ″ S , 66 ° 58 ′ 24 ″ W Coordinates: 69 ° 29 ′ 54 ″ S , 66 ° 58 ′ 24 ″ W

Mount Leo is a 1270 m high and solitary mountain on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . With its steep cliffs on the southern flank, it rises at the southeastern end of the Forster-Piedmont Glacier .

Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill made a first rough survey . He was photographed in 1947 during an overflight as part of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . In 1958, a detailed survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey followed . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it a descriptive name in 1962 because the shape of the mountain is reminiscent of a reclining lion ( Latin leo ).

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