Stopford Peak
| Stopford Peak | ||
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| height | 495 m | |
| location | Hoseason Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 45 '57 " S , 61 ° 37' 54" W | |
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The Stopford peak is 495 m high and steep mountain on Hoseason Iceland in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It rises on the east coast of the island.
The British explorer Henry Foster roughly mapped it in 1829 and mistook it for a cape . He named the mountain as Cape Stopford after Admiral Robert Stopford (1768-1847), who was Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth from 1827 to 1830 , where Foster's ship, the HMS Chanticleer , was equipped in 1827 for its Antarctic voyage was. Aerial photographs from the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1956 to 1957 show that it is indeed a mountain. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee adapted the name to this fact in 1960.
Web links
- Stopford Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stopford Peak on geographic.org (English)