Mount Bransfield
| Mount Bransfield | |
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  Mount Bransfield Location in Antarctica | |
| Highest point | |
| Coordinates | 63°17′S 57°5′W / 63.283°S 57.083°W |
| Geography | |
| Location | Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land |
| Continent | Antarctica |
Mount Bransfield (63°17′S 57°5′W / 63.283°S 57.083°W) is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, 760 metres (2,490 ft) high, rising 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southwest of Cape Dubouzet at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.[1]
Location
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Mount Bransfield is southeast of Prime Head, the northern tip of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is east of the Mott Snowfield, west of the Antarctic Sound and north of Hope Bay. It faces Bransfield Island to the east. Nearby features include Cape Dubouzet to the north, Koerner Rock and Bahía Chica to the south.[2][3]
Discovery and name
[edit]Mount Bransfield was discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, who circumnavigated and charted the South Shetland Islands in 1820.[1]
Nearby features
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Nearby features, from nortth to south, include:
Cape Dubouzet
[edit]63°16′S 57°03′W / 63.267°S 57.050°W. A cape which marks the northeast extremity of Antarctic Peninsula. Charted in 1838 by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Lieutenant Joseph Dubouzet of the expedition ship Zélée.[4]
Obzor Hill
[edit]63°16′00″S 57°05′43″W / 63.26667°S 57.09528°W. A hill that rises to 479 metres (1,572 ft)[5] high at the northeast tip of Trinity Peninsula. It is situated 2.46 kilometres (1.53 mi) west-southwest of Cape Dubouzet, 1.18 kilometres (0.73 mi) north of Mount Bransfield and 1.87 kilometres (1.16 mi) northwest of Vishegrad Knoll. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Obzor in Eastern Bulgaria.[6]
Vishegrad Knoll
[edit]63°16′33″S 57°03′51″W / 63.27583°S 57.06417°W. A hill that rises to 532 metres (1,745 ft)[7] high at the northeast tip of Trinity Peninsula. Situated 2.21 kilometres (1.37 mi) south-southwest of Cape Dubouzet, 1.87 kilometres (1.16 mi) southeast of Obzor Hill and 1.83 kilometres (1.14 mi) east of Mount Bransfield. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Vishegrad in Southern Bulgaria.[8]
Koerner Rock
[edit]63°19′S 57°05′W / 63.317°S 57.083°W. A small but conspicuous rock outcrop 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) southwest of Cape Dubouzet. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Roy M. Koerner, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) assistant meteorologist and glaciologist at Hope Bay, 1957-60.[9]
Bahía Chica
[edit]63°21′S 57°03′W / 63.350°S 57.050°W. Bahía Chica (Small Bay) is a bay on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The name originates from Argentina.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Alberts 1995, p. 89.
- ^ Trinity Peninsula AG and BAS.
- ^ Graham Land and South Shetland BAS.
- ^ Alberts 1995, p. 202.
- ^ Antarctic REMA Explorer, 63°16′00″S 57°05′43″W.
- ^ Obzor Hill SCAR.
- ^ Antarctic REMA Explorer, 63°16′33″S 57°03′51″W.
- ^ Vishegrad Knoll SCAR.
- ^ Alberts 1995, p. 399.
- ^ Bahía Chica SCAR.
Sources
[edit]- Alberts, Fred G., ed. (1995), Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (2 ed.), United States Board on Geographic Names, retrieved 2023-12-03
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Board on Geographic Names.
| REMA Explorer |
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- Antarctic REMA Explorer (Digital Elevation Models created by the Polar Geospatial Center from Maxar imagery), Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019, retrieved 2024-06-03
- "Bahía Chica", Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- Graham Land and South Shetland Islands, BAS: British Antarctic Survey, 2005, retrieved 2024-05-03
- "Obzor Hill", Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- Trinity Peninsula (PDF) (Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697), Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996, archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015
- "Vishegrad Knoll", Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.