Tioga Hill
| Tioga Hill | ||
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| height | 290 m | |
| location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 42 ′ 58 ″ S , 45 ° 38 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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The Tioga Peak is a rounded mountain peak of 290 m (according to another source 278 m ) height on Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It rises on the west side of the head end of the McLeod Glacier and is the highest point on the island.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1954 after the Norwegian factory ship Tioga , built in 1890 , which operated for whaling in the waters around the Southern Orkney Islands between 1911 and 1912 and sank in a storm near Port Jebsen on February 4, 1913 .
Web links
- Tioga Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tioga Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ CM Harris et al .: Important Bird Areas in Antarctica 2015 , BirdLife International and Environmental Research & Assessment Ltd., Cambridge 2015 (English, accessed September 5, 2017)