Mount Strauss

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Mount Strauss
Topographic map sheet (1: 250,000) with the Beethoven peninsula and Mount Strauss on it (center right)

Topographic map sheet (1: 250,000) with the Beethoven peninsula and Mount Strauss on it (center right)

height 815  m
location Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica )
Coordinates 71 ° 38 '56 "  S , 73 ° 10' 54"  W Coordinates: 71 ° 38 '56 "  S , 73 ° 10' 54"  W
Mount Strauss (Antarctic Peninsula)
Mount Strauss

Mount Strauss is an 815  m high and snow-covered mountain in the southwest of Alexander I Island, west of the Antarctic Peninsula . With its steep slope on the southern flank, it rises 10 km east-southeast of the head end of Brahms Inlet on the Beethoven Peninsula .

A number of mountains in the area appear for the first time on map material that was created in the course of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 mapped Mount Strauss, which is one of them, using aerial photographs that were also taken during this research trip. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain on March 2, 1961 after the Austrian composer Johann Strauss (1804–1849) and the German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949).

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