Mount Zeppelin
| Mount Zeppelin | ||
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| height | 850 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 26 '38 " S , 61 ° 28' 49" W | |
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Mount Zeppelin is an approximately 850 m (according to the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names about 1265 m ) high mountain on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km southeast of Eckener Point .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped him. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey measured it between 1957 and 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the German airship pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917).
Web links
- Mount Zeppelin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Zeppelin on geographic.org (English)