Mount Zdarsky
| Mount Zdarsky | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Chiren Heights | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 5 '44 " S , 64 ° 53' 35" W | |
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Mount Zdarsky is a 1200 m high mountain on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises as the highest peak of Chiren Heights between Barilari Bay and Holtedahl Bay on the eastern flank of the Simler snowfield .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it and named it Monte García , probably in connection with the naming of an offshore cape. Charcot later changed his names so that what is now Cape García on the north side of the Barilari Bay was meant. To avoid confusion with the Cape, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee renamed this mountain on the south side of the bay in 1959. The new namesake is the Austrian ski pioneer Mathias Zdarsky (1856–1940), the inventor of the first modern ski binding, the Lilienfeld steel sole binding .
Web links
- Mount Zdarsky in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Zdarsky on geographic.org (English)