Mount Hodges

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Mount Hodges
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Range: Thatcher Peninsula
Summit: 1,985 feet 54°16’22"S, 36°31’22"W

Mount Hodges is a hill on the Thatcher Peninsula of South Georgia. It climbs to a summit at 1,985 feet above sea level to the north-west of Grytviken.

The mountain was named after Cdr Michael Henry (later Admiral Sir Michael) Hodges of the Royal Navy (1874-1951), of HMS Sappho, who mapped part of the area in 1906. (A Swedish map of 1912 also labelled this mountain as 'Mount Skottsberg' after Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1880-1963), a Swedish botanist who was a member of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.)

References

  • Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Mount Hodges
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