Mount Pitman
| Mount Pitman | ||
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| height | 1830 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 8 '38 " S , 67 ° 43' 37" W | |
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Mount Pitman is a 1,830 m high and mainly icy mountain with two dome-shaped peaks near the Rymill coast in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 15 km inland from George VI Sound between the Riley and Chapman glaciers .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out the first measurements in 1936. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1954 after the carpenters E. L. Pitman from Byfleet in the county of Surrey , the improved form of the for Rymills expedition Nansen carriage had developed.
Web links
- Mount Pitman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Pitman on geographic.org (English)