Mount Martine
| Mount Martine | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Charcot Island | |||
| Summit: | 2,625 feet 69°44’28"S, 75°9’48"W | ||
Mount Martine is a massive mountain, about 2,625 feet high, with a prominent rocky north face and ice-covered south slopes, overlooking the north shore of Charcot Island, to the south of Cheesman Island, in the east Bellingshausen Sea, within the British Antarctic Territory.
History
The mountain was discovered and roughly mapped on 11 January 1910, by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him in association with Mount Monique and the Marion Nunataks, after his daughter, Martine.
Mount Martine was photographed from the air on 9 February 1947 in the course of the US Navy's Operation Highjump and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960.
The mountain forms part of the 'Marion Nunataks Antarctic Specially Protected Area' (ASPA No.170) designated as such for its biological values.[1]
References
- ↑ "Marion Nunataks, Charcot Island, Antarctic Peninsula". Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 170: Measure 4, Annex. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2008. http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att388_e.pdf.
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mount Martine