Mount Moberly
| Mount Moberly | ||
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| height | 1535 m | |
| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 44 ′ 19 ″ S , 63 ° 40 ′ 4 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Moberly is a steep-walled, snow-covered and 1535 m high mountain on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises up from a ridge that extends from Mount Français in a south-westerly direction. A saddle at the head of the Hooper Glacier separates it from the neighboring Mount William to the south .
The appointment comes on the British navigator and explorer John Biscoe back in the 1832nd It is named after Captain (later Admiral) John Moberly (1789–1848) of the Royal Navy . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took measurements of the mountain in 1944 and 1955.
Web links
- Mount Moberly in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Moberly on geographic.org (English)