Mount Timosthenes
| Mount Timosthenes | ||
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| height | 2025 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Timosthenes is a 2025 m high and striking mountain in Graham Land in the center of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km northwest of Peregrinus Peak at the head of the Hariot Glacier and the northern flank of the Airy Glacier .
The first aerial photographs of this mountain were taken on September 28, 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) and on November 27, 1947 as part of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in December 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after the Greek navigator Timosthenes of Rhodes , who developed a compass rose consisting of 12 directions in the third century BC .
Web links
- Mount Timosthenes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Timosthenes on geographic.org (English)