Coffin Top () is a mountain with a flattened summit, high, located east-northeast of
Mount Fagan
Mount Fagan () is a mountain rising to west-southwest of Coffin Top and west of Moltke Harbour, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 for Captain P.F. Fagan, Royal Engineers, surveyor on the British Co ...
and northwest of
Moltke Harbour,
South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. The feature was named "Sarg-Berg" (coffin mountain) by the German group of the
International Polar Year Expedition, 1882–83. An English form of the name, Coffin Top, was recommended by
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
in 1954.
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Mountains and hills of South Georgia
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