Mount Pond
| Mount Pond | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Mount Pond Rises behind Whalers Bay | |||
| Deception Island | |||
| Summit: | 1,772 feet 62°57’0"S, 60°33’-0"W | ||
Mount Pond is a hill of 1,772 feet on the eastern side of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, part of the British Antarctic Territory. It stands a mile and a half east-south-east of Pendulum Cove. This is the highest point of the island.
The name 'Mount Pond' appears on an 1829 chart based upon survey work by the British expedition under Foster, 1828-31. It was probably named for John Pond, the noted astronomer and director of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich at that time.
The mountain was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1953-54
Mount Pond North Top
The north top stands at 1,696 feet, 4921 feet, 1,660 yards north-north-west of the summit of Mount Pond.
On the earliest chart with the name 'Mount Pond', Kendall's chart following Foster's survey, it is the North Top which is marked with the name. The main summit took the name on charts from 1829.
Survey
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The mountain was roughly mapped by Foster in January 1829 and named after John Pond (1767-1836), Astronomer Royal, 1811-35.
Another name which has appeared is 'Iceberg Hill' "from the circumstance of it being capped with ice in a singular manner, so as to give it the resemblance of a huge twelfth-cake",
Antarctic Specially Protected Area
The peak forms part of an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 140), comprising several separate sites on Deception Island, and designated as such primarily for its botanic and ecological values.[1]
References
- ↑ "Parts of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands". Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 140: Measure 3, Appendix 1. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2005. http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att242_e.pdf. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mount Pond
