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| Mount Adam | |||
| Falkland Islands | |||
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| Range: | Hill Cove Mountains | ||
| West Falkland | |||
| Summit: | 2,297 feet 51°34’0"S, 60°4’0"W | ||
Mount Adam is a mountain on West Falkland, part of the Hill Cove Mountains range, which loom over Hill Cove. Mount Adam is the highest mountain on West Falkland and is one of the highest in the islands.[1]
The mountain has the remains of glacial cirques on it, and is of similar height to Mount Usborne on East Falkland. Its summit is at 2,297 feet.[2]
Geography
As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, the Mountain experienced some glaciation in the Ice Age. The handful of mountains over 2,000 feet have:
- "pronounced corries with small glacial lakes at the their bases, morainic ridges deposited below the corries suggest that the glaciers and ice domes were confined to areas of maximum elevation with other parts of the islands experiencing a periglacial climate" [3]
References
- ↑ http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1018965238550 (dead link)
- ↑ Falklands Info
- ↑ Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands
- Stonehouse, B (ed.) Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans (2002, ISBN 0-471-98665-8)