Mount Waugh
| Mount Waugh | ||
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| height | 585 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 31 '19 " S , 64 ° 6' 41" W | |
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The Mount Waugh is a 585 m high mountain at the Graham Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises south of Beascochea Bay and 7 km northeast of Nuñez Point .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the US biochemist William A. Waugh , who, together with Charles Glen King, was the first to isolate vitamin C in 1932 .
Web links
- Mount Waugh in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Waugh on geographic.org (English)