Mount Monique
| Mount Monique | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Charcot Island | |||
| Summit: | 1,970 feet 69°45’50"S, 75°22’27"W | ||
Mount Monique is a mountain, about 1,970 feet high, with a prominent rocky north face and ice-covered south slopes, at the western end of the Marion Nunataks on the north coast of Charcot Island in the east Bellinghausen Sea within the British Antarctic Territory.
History
The monutain was discovered and roughly mapped on 11 January 1910, by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him 'Sommet Monique' in association with Marion Nunataks and Mount Martine after his daughter, Monique.
Mount Monique 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 Derek J.H. 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 Monique