Mount Taylor (Antarctica)
| Mount Taylor | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Dominance | 89 km → Mount Haddington | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 25 '32 " S , 57 ° 7' 58" W | |
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Mount Taylor is a massive and 1000 m high mountain with a flattened peak and steep cliffs on the northeast flank. It rises 4 km west-southwest of the head end of Hope Bay on the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula .
The mountain was discovered during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped it in 1946. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1948 after the British-Canadian surveyor Andrew Taylor (1907-1993), head of the FIDS station in Hope Bay in 1945 .
Web links
- Mount Taylor, Antarctica on Peakbagger.com (English)
- Mount Taylor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Taylor on geographic.org (English)