Mount Umbriel
| Mount Umbriel | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 34 '25 " S , 68 ° 45' 41" W | |
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Mount Umbriel is a 1500 m (according to British data 1350 m ) high mountain in the eastern part of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises there above the head of the Venus Glacier .
The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a mapping in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 based on the naming of the Uranus glacier after Umbriel , one of the five large moons of the planet Uranus.
Web links
- Mount Umbriel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Umbriel on geographic.org (English)