Traverse Mountains
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Highest peak | Mount Allan and Mount Noel ( 1600 m ) | |
location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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Coordinates | 69 ° 57 ′ S , 67 ° 54 ′ W |
The Traverse Mountains are a group of almost ice-free mountains of up to 1,600 m in the western Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula between the Eureka Glacier and the Riley Glacier .
They include McHugo Peak , Mount Noel , Mount Allan and Mount Eissinger . They were first photographed by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The photographs served as the basis for mapping by Ellsworth's compatriot, the geographer WLG Joerg . Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out the first geodetic survey of the area in 1936, which was repeated in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The mountains got their name by being the British Graham Land Expedition (English: as an important landmark for the crossing traverse ) by dogsled from Wordie Ice Shelf on the Eureka Glacier to George VI Sound served.
Web links
- Traverse Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Traverse Mountains on geographic.org (English)