Mount Ptolemy
| Mount Ptolemy | ||
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| height | 1370 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 33 ′ 1 ″ S , 65 ° 56 ′ 32 ″ W | |
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Mount Ptolemy is a 1370 m high and isolated mountain with four peaks in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises directly north of the Traffic Circle glacier system on the northwest side of the Mercator Piedmont Glacier .
He was first spotted on the journey of the US polar explorers Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) by dog sled to the Traffic Circle as part of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out on-site surveys in 1947. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after the Egyptian mathematician, astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy , who in the second century AD developed the method of localizing a place using geographic coordinates ( longitude and latitude ).
Web links
- Mount Ptolemy in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ptolemy on geographic.org (English)