Mount Maria

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Mount Maria
Falkland Islands
Range: Hornby Mountains
West Falkland
Summit: 2,160 feet 51°36’0"S, 59°35’38"W

Mount Maria is a mountain of the Hornby Mountains, adjacent to Port Howard, on West Falkland island (Falkland Islands). It reaches a height of approximately 2,160 feet.

As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The handful of mountains over 2,000 feet have:

“ pronounced corries with small glacial lakes at the their bases, [and] 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.[1] ”

References

  1. ↑ Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands
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