Mount Stephenson (Alexander I Island)
| Mount Stephenson | ||
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| height | 2985 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Douglas Range | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 49 ′ 18 ″ S , 69 ° 43 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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At 2985 m, Mount Stephenson is the highest mountain on Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Douglas Range it rises 13 km west of George VI Sound at the head ends of the Toynbee and Sedgwick glaciers .
The first sighting probably goes back to participants in the fifth French Antarctic expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on January 21, 1909. Alfred Stephenson (1908-1999), later namesake of the mountain, William Launcelot Scott Fleming (1906-1990) and George Colin Lawder Bertram (1911-2001) took part in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian in 1936 Polar explorer John Rymill presented the first geodetic surveys . The east side of the mountain was surveyed again in 1948 by staff from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who also named the mountain.
Web links
- Mount Stephenson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stephenson on geographic.org (English)