Mount Nicholas

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Mount Nicholas
Satellite image from 2009 of the northern end of the Douglas Range with Mount Nicholas (right) east of the Hampton Glacier

Satellite image from 2009 of the northern end of the Douglas Range with Mount Nicholas (right) east of the Hampton Glacier

height 1465  m
location Alexander I Island , Antarctica
Mountains Douglas Range
Coordinates 69 ° 21 '56 "  S , 69 ° 51' 10"  W Coordinates: 69 ° 21 '56 "  S , 69 ° 51' 10"  W
Mount Nicholas (Antarctic Peninsula)
Mount Nicholas
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Nicholas is a 1465  m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 1350  m ) high mountain in the northeast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 9 km south-southwest of Cape Brown and forms the northern extension of the Douglas Range .

It was first sighted and roughly mapped in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who mistakenly assumed the mountain was an island as Ile Nicolas II after the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. (1868-1918) named. After the evaluation of aerial photographs taken in 1937 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , the name was also mistakenly changed to Cape Nicholas , and this for an extension of the 42 km further north-northwest Mount Calais . It was not until 1948 that the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveying work that the island, originally named by Charcot, was identified as a mountain.

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