Mount Solus
| Mount Solus | ||
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| height | 1290 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 49 '24 " S , 65 ° 28' 35" W | |
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Mount Solus (from Latin solus for lonely ) is a prominent, isolated and 1,290 m high mountain on the Bowman coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises in the middle of the Weyerhaeuser glacier near its confluence with the Mercator-Piedmont glacier . It is characterized by its steep and rocky flanks that merge into a pointed peak.
The first aerial photographs were taken in August 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and in December 1947 by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition . The FIDS surveyed the mountain in December 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it a descriptive name on August 31, 1961, based on its isolated geographic location.
Web links
- Mount Solus in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Solus on geographic.org (English)