Prince Albert Mountains

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Prince Albert Mountains
Highest peak
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of Transantarctic Mountains
Prince Albert Mountains (Antarctica)
Prince Albert Mountains
Coordinates 76 ° 0 ′  S , 161 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 76 ° 0 ′  S , 161 ° 30 ′  E
Northern part of the Prince Albert Mountains in the western area of ​​the map sheet

Northern part of the Prince Albert Mountains in the western area of ​​the map sheet

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  • Southwestern part of the Prince Albert Mountains in the eastern half of the map

  • Southeast part of the Prince Albert Mountains on the western edge of the map

The Prince Albert Mountains are a larger group of mountain peaks of the Transantarctic Mountains , which extend over approximately 320 kilometers in north-south expansion between the Priestley Glacier and the Ferrar Glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land. These mountains include:

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

mountain height Coordinates
Brimstone Peak 2340  m 75 ° 48 ′  S , 158 ° 33 ′  E
Ambalada Peak 2160  m 75 ° 57 '  S , 158 ° 23'  E
Terminal Peak 1920  m 75 ° 53 '  S , 158 ° 24'  E
Mount Morrison 1895  m 76 ° 54 '  S , 161 ° 32'  E
Mount Bowen 1875  m 75 ° 45 ′  S , 161 ° 3 ′  E
Mount Army Days 1855  m 76 ° 2 ′  S , 160 ° 45 ′  E
Ford Peak 1830  m 75 ° 43 '  S , 160 ° 27'  E
Mount Joyce 1830  m 75 ° 36 '  S , 160 ° 49'  E
Mount Endeavor 1810  m 76 ° 33 '  S , 162 ° 0'  E
Beta peak 1620  m 75 ° 51 ′  S , 160 ° 6 ′  E
Mount Davidson 1560  m 76 ° 34 '  S , 161 ° 58'  E
Benson Knob 1540  m 75 ° 45 ′  S , 159 ° 17 ′  E
Mount Howard 1460  m 75 ° 40 ′  S , 161 ° 16 ′  E
Mount Billing 1420  m 75 ° 43 '  S , 160 ° 54'  E
Mount Brøgger over 1400  m 76 ° 52 '  S , 161 ° 48'  E
Mount Chetwynd over 1400  m 76 ° 20 ′  S , 162 ° 2 ′  E
Mount Bellingshausen 1380  m 75 ° 7 ′  S , 162 ° 6 ′  E
Mount Mallis 1360  m 75 ° 40 ′  S , 160 ° 48 ′  E
Mount Brocklehurst 1310  m 76 ° 8 ′  S , 161 ° 27 ′  E
Mount Creak 1240  m 76 ° 36 '  S , 162 ° 9'  E
Mount Gaberlein 1210  m 75 ° 4 ′  S , 162 ° 4 ′  E
Mount Belgrave over 1210  m 76 ° 30 '  S , 162 ° 9'  E
Mount Fearon 1140  m 75 ° 5 '  S , 161 ° 42'  E
Mount Priestley 1100  m 75 ° 11 ′  S , 161 ° 53 ′  E
Mount bull 1080  m 75 ° 6 ′  S , 162 ° 9 ′  E
Mount Murray 1005  m 76 ° 9 ′  S , 161 ° 50 ′  E
Shoulder Mountain over 1000  m 76 ° 37 ′  S , 162 ° 8 ′  E
Burrage Dome 840  m 75 ° 33 '  S , 161 ° 5'  E
Mount Stephen 810  m 75 ° 42 '  S , 161 ° 43'  E
D'Urville Wall 720  m 75 ° 16 '  S , 162 ° 13'  E

The mountains were discovered on February 17, 1841 by the British polar explorer James Clark Ross (1800–1862), who named them after Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861), the then fiancé and later husband of the British monarch Victoria . The first exploratory marches to the summit group did not take place until the early 1990s by British expeditions, after they had been surveyed and mapped by New Zealand and US expeditions in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 396 (English): In New Zealand, Mount Davidson is given as an altitude of 2477 m instead of 1560 m. After that this mountain would be the highest of these mountains.