Mount Obiglio
| Mount Obiglio | ||
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| height | 510 m | |
| location | Grant Island , Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 131 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | volcano | |
| Age of the rock | Pleistocene | |
Mount Obiglio is an almost completely ice-covered volcanic cone that occupies the western part of Grant Island off the Hobbs coast of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . With a height of 510 m it is their highest point. Rock dating showed an age of 510,000 years; there is no evidence of volcanic activity during the Holocene .
The crew of the icebreaker USS Glacier discovered and mapped it on February 4, 1962 as part of Operation Deep Freeze that year. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names also named him in 1962 after Guillermo Martín Obiglio, an Argentine lieutenant who belonged to the crew.
Web links
- Obiglio in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
- Antarctica Detail - Mount Obiglio in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
- Geographical Names - Obiglio, Mount, Antarctica. In: geographic.org. (English).