Mount Wales

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Mount Wales
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height 800  m
location Bristol Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Coordinates 59 ° 0 ′ 48 ″  S , 26 ° 30 ′ 26 ″  W Coordinates: 59 ° 0 ′ 48 ″  S , 26 ° 30 ′ 26 ″  W
Mount Wales (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Mount Wales

Mount Wales is an approximately 800  m high mountain peak on Bristol Island in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic . It rises west-southwest of Mount Sourabaya .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2013. It is named after the British astronomer William Wales (≈1734–1789), who accompanied the British navigator and explorer James Cook on his second South Seas voyage (1772–1775) on the ship HMS Resolution , where the discovery of the South Sandwich Islands succeeded.

Web links

  • Wales, Mount . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)