Mount Tranchant
| Mount Tranchant | ||
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| height | 285 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 14 ′ 23 ″ S , 64 ° 4 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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Mount Tranchant ( French Mont Tranchant , translated Randberg ; in the United Kingdom Edge Hill , English for Randhügel ) is a 285 m high mountain on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the southern flank of the confluence of the Wiggins Glacier in the Penola Strait .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcots mapped and named him descriptively. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred this designation in 1965 in a partial translation into English. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee , however, made a modified translation in 1959.
Web links
- Mount Tranchant in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Tranchant on geographic.org (English)