Mount Martine
| Mount Martine | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Charcot Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 44 '28 " S , 75 ° 9' 48" W | |
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Mount Martine ( French Sommet Martine ) is a roughly 800 m (according to Chilean representation 609 m ) high and massive mountain on the West Antarctic Charcot Island . Its striking north flank is not iced over while the south-facing slopes are covered in snow. It rises on the north coast of the island immediately south of Cheesman Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered it on January 11, 1910. Charcot later named the mountain after his third daughter Martine (1911-1979). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred 1950, the French designation into English. Aerial photos of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) from February 9, 1947 were used in 1960 for mapping by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Mount Martine in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Martine on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1006 (English).