Mount Pisgah (South Shetland Islands)
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 Map of Smith Island with Mount Pisgah (center right) |
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| height | 1860 m | |
| location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Imeon Range | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 56 '53 " S , 62 ° 29' 1" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Pisgah is a 1,860 m high mountain in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Imeon Range it rises 5 km southwest of Mount Christi and 6 km northeast of Mount Foster in the north-central part of the island.
American seal hunters named it after a mountain of the same name in Durham , Connecticut in the 1820s .
Web links
- Mount Pisgah in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Pisgah on geographic.org (English)